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PR release: Jalimpa, a singer-songwriter raised on Suo-Oshima Island, Japan, has been certified by Guinness World Records as the “Youngest Solo Artist to Release an Album” for her debut album “Nonsense Makes Sense”, which she […]

Tweet by composer Samuel Andreyev: A composer friend attended a programming meeting in Vancouver during which the possibility of one of his works being played was raised. ‘Sorry,’ they said, ‘we’re only doing DEI pieces’. […]

Lindsay McMurdo, a critic at the Edinburgh Festival, hits the elusive nail bang on the head: And therein lies both a small part of the appeal and a large part of the problem, at least […]

The Cleveland Orchestra has received a $5 million gift from the Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation in support of the Kelvin Smith Family Chair held by Music Director Franz Welser-Möst. Welser-Möst will step down when […]

The widely admired Christoph Nel died on Monday, aged 80. Working mostly in Frankfurt, he also directed in Stuttgart, Hannover, Munich, Mannheim and Berlin. The post German opera director, RIP appeared first on Slippedisc.

Newly up on Youtube: Martha Argerich and friends. The post A moment of cool contemplation appeared first on Slippedisc.

The Greek musicologist and senior music critic George Leotsakos died this week, aged 89. Born in Athens, on the 9th of August 1935, he studied with composers Kostas Kydoniatis and Yannis Andreou Papaïoannou, graduating from […]

The UK-Australian pianist who was cancelled by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra after making unacceptable remarks on the Gaza situation has issued this clarification through his PR agency: For clariy (sic), we are releasing the comments […]

You can now get excluded for carrying a flag related to ‘politics, hatred and advertising’. Seems to cover pretty much everything.   The post BBC Proms tightens Last Night flags restriction appeared first on Slippedisc.