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Pierre-Auguste Renoir, born 178 years ago this week, on  25th February   1841, was a French Impressionist painter whose eye for beauty made him one of the movement’s most popular practitioners. He is best known for […]

A devoted reader has sent us this clipping from the Honolulu Star Bulletin of Betsy Arakawa at her piano debut in 1971, playing one movement of Haydn’s G major concerto. Betsy became the second wife […]

The BBC’s chief content officer Charlotte Moore resigned today to join Sony Pictures. Moore, 56, had been seen as the likely next D-G, successor-in-waiting to Tim Davie (pic). She has been with the BBC for […]

Leontyne Price On March 1, 1985, Leontyne Price,  transcendent soprano of her time, retired from the opera stage. She did it in her signature role, Verdi’s Aida, at her home opera house, the Met, a […]

It is being widely reported that Gene Hackman, star of The French Connection (pic) and much else, has been found dead today at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Hackman was 95. Beside him […]

It is being widely reported that Gene Hackman, star of The French Connection (pic) and much else, has been found dead today at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Hackman was 95. Beside him […]

From my monthly essay in The Critic (new issue out today) … Nothing in opera surpasses that single scenic blow to the seat of emotions. The effect is so visceral that I have seen cellists […]

From my monthly essay in The Critic (new issue out today) … Nothing in opera surpasses that single scenic blow to the seat of emotions. The effect is so visceral that I have seen cellists […]

From the Washington Post: Last week, “The President’s Own” quietly canceled a concert program originally billed as the “Equity Arc Wind Symphony.” The performance was to be the culmination of a “multi-day music intensive with […]