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Greek National Opera is offering 1,500 free seats to unemployed people for the dress rehearsal of Giacomo Puccini’s ‘Tosca’ this Friday night at 9pm. The show is being staged at the Herodes Atticus Odeon in […]

The long-serving head of music at Bishop’s Stortford College in Hertfordshire has been banned for life from teaching after a tribunal found him guilty of touching boys for sexual gratification. Andrew Bruce, 64, taught at […]

From the Pittsburgh Symphony: PITTSBURGH, PA— The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO) today released the results of an independent study of its economic impact on Pittsburgh and the surrounding region. The study was conducted by a […]

The New Yorker critic goes to town on a Los Angeles piano recital. … a number of people find themselves distracted. “She’d fit much better in a night club” is one of the politer complaints […]

The French-Armenian singer Charles Aznavour was born a hundred years ago, on May 22, 1924. As refugees from Turkish genocide in Armenia, and forced to flee again from their next home in Salonica, the Aznavours […]

The board of FEVIS, the Fédération des Ensembles Vocaux et Instrumentaux Spécialisés, has expelled the renowned French ensemble Les Siècles after its founder-conductor Francois-Xavier Roth was found to have sent inappropriate images to female musicians. […]

It sounded like no Ravel ever heard before. Sit back and marvel.   The post When Richter took on Ravel appeared first on Slippedisc.

The Cleveland composer H. Leslie Adams who wrote songs and pianio suites with African-American themes, has died in his home town, aged 91. His largest work is a m usic drama, Blake, on the lives […]

The passing of the passionate Elgar researcher Jerrold Northrop Moore lays to rest a glorious adventurer in self-fired musical research. Jerry, whom I knew well some years back, came to England for the Three Choirs […]