Slipped Disc

From WBEZ Chicago: “It’s pretty unrecognizable,” said Seth Boustead of Access Contemporary Music. “The door dings when you walk in, like a 7-Eleven — we left that.” This is so exciting. Read on here. For […]

From the great man’s maiden speech in the House of Lords in 1993, newly uploaded on Youtube. ‘Music is the one art,’ he says, ‘that can create order out of chaos.’     The post […]

From a new essay in the Music Quarterly by Joseph N. Straus of the City University of New York. I find the article objectionable from the opening sentence on. Almost every assertion can be challenged, […]

The US president has agreed to host the 2025 Kennedy Center honors. Usually there is one token classical or opera recipient – Martha Argerich, Renee Fleming or the like.   Not this year. The 2025 […]

We have received concerns from Met insiders that the latest rounds of auditions have yielded a less diverse chorus membership. Here’s what the chorus is being told in an internal memo: The post Has the […]

The British Choral Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, James Burton, will leave his position directly after the Tanglewood Fesival. Burton, 51, is also conductor of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus. He has been in both […]

From Dani Cubero in Barecelona: Hi Norman. I couldnt flight today with British Airways Barcelona to London flight BA 483 because they wouldnt let me go with my viola. They say my viola its 82 […]

Professor Vanessa Latarche, Chair of International Keyboard Studies and Head of Keyboard at the Royal College of Music, has shared this message with colleagues: I am writing to inform you all that our colleague Nigel […]

Herbert (Sonny) Ausman, second trombonist in the LA Phil for 45 years, has died at the age of 78. His colleague, Ralph Sauer, writes: Herbert (“Sonny”) Medlar Ausman III passed away yesterday, just a few […]

The West-Eastern Diwan orchestra performed last night with Daniel Barenboim in Lübeck, birthplace of the Nobel-winning German author. The concert’s soloist was Lang Lang. Questions are being raised about the orchestra’s purported neutrality after Barenboim’s […]