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Many readers will remember John Adams’ inspired setting of the John Donne poem in Doctor Atomic. Well, here’s another. It’s by a British composer, Joanna Marsh, who lives in Dubai.   The post More than […]

What the American conductor brought to her debut program this month.     The post Marin Alsop’s Brazilian at the Berlin Phil appeared first on Slippedisc.

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: Dmitri Shostakovich wrote his last symphony with left hand alone. A heart attack in 1966, followed by several falls and fractures, left him heavily disabled. His solution was […]

The Dean of Wakefield Cathedral has issued this notification to parents of choir members: It became public this week that Dr Jayson Rhodes, who was a member of clergy here from January 2022 to July […]

The Alastair Macualay Review: A number of singers – Placido Domingo and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau the most renowned – have also been conductors. It’s probably not a first to have someone sing and conduct at the […]

The record producer Helmut Mühle visited the composer several times at her home in Appen, near Hamburg, creating a profound portrait of a spiritual personality. He shared the portraits with Gidon Kremer and we present […]

From our agony aunt’s mailbag: Dear Alma, I am a graduate student and teach lessons as a part of my scholarship. One of my students just doesn’t practice. It’s incredibly obvious. Then she gives me […]

The Eugene Symphony has named Alex Prior as its music director, starting in October. Prior, 32, previously had one term as music director in Edmonton, Canada, and another in Erfurt, Germany. He said: ‘I was […]

Deborah Rutter, sacked as president of the Kennedy Center by Trumpist board, has been named keynote speaker for Opera America’s 2025 conference in Miami. Opera America, based in New York, is the national forum and […]

Dvořák wrote The Devil and Kate just before Rusalka at the height of his powers as an orchestral composer and at a period of keen interest in fairytale and mythological themes. There is much purely instrumental music partly justified […]