Slipped Disc

The Aizuri Quartet, a major sponsor of new works, has let it be known it’s giving its last concert next month, in New York. The quartet, founder in 2012, consists of violinists Emma Frucht and […]

The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra has appointed Marta Krechkovsky Assistant Concertmaster. She has been playing in the orchestra for the past six months. Marta began studying violin at six with her father, Orest Krechkovsky. At Juilliard […]

A court in South Carolina has found Zachary David Hughes guilty of murdering Christina Parcell, 41, in October 2021. Hughes, 32, is a Juilliard graduate who studied with Jerome Lowenthal. He was resident pianist with […]

The City of Oxford Orchestra has given its final concert, after 60 years. The programme was Glinka overture, Rach 2, Tchaik 5. Before the concert, the orchestra’s director Lindsay Sandison explained why it would be […]

On the day of the Met opening of Jake Heggie’s opera, Peter Mattei phoned in sick. Thomas Glass, winner of the 2019 National Council Auditions, was summoned to jump in.   The post Last-minute Starbuck […]

Mama Africa Zenzile Miriam Makeba, often known as Mama Africa, was a Grammy Award-winning South African singer and civil rights activist. In the 1960s, she was the first artist from Africa to popularize African music around […]

He can;t play all the time with Yuja. And MTT just happened to be free. Vikingut writes:  ‘Finally met Michael Tilson Thomas in person yesterday. Felt like we knew each other for a long time.’ […]

The Bishop has just published his review into recent scandals at the Cathedral and Dean Catherine Ogle has drawn the short straw. She’s retiring immediately, instead of in summer, but the heavy-handed Precentor remains in […]

Having two productions of Bellini’s Norma running simultaneously at the Vienna Staatsoper and Teater an der Wien has certain advantages. Juan Diego Florez has fallen sick and can’t sing Pollione tonight at the Staatsoper. In […]

The Chicago Symphony has announced that Esteban Batallán is returning as its principal trumpet, ‘following the conclusion of a one-year leave from the Orchestra’. What is doesn’t say is that Batallán joined the Philadelphia Orchestra, […]