Slipped Disc

The Bunker Mödling on the outskirts of Vienna is staging a macabre show of nasty moments in six centuries of the imperial ruling family. Highlights are a transvestite archduke, an epileptic imbecile and the world-resounding […]

The orchestra has established a residency in a refurbished cinema in … Walthamstow, at the eastern end of the Underground. The district’s only previous music connection was the town hall, which was once used for […]

It’s August. There are daily review and reports from Salzburg, Bayreuth, the BBC Proms, Edinburgh…. even Schleswig-Holstein. What’s missing? Verbier. Despite attracting big-name performers and high-worth audiences, the Swiss mountain-tent festival has lost almost all […]

The University of Tel Aviv has awarded a full professorship to Anbessa Tefra, the first Ethiopian migrant to achieve this status. Tefra was appointed senior lecturer in music at Tel Aviv ten years ago. His […]

Message from the conductor Hilary Davan Wetton:   Browsing gently – as one does – through the Church Times’ “Organists required” Column, I come upon an advertisement from St Pancras Parish Church in the Euston […]

The president of the National Audiovisual Institute (INA), which looks after radio and TV sound archives, was has been suspended from his duties today by Culture Minister Rachida Dati. Laurent Vallet, 55, had admitted to […]

Charlie Parker called her ‘the lady with the million dollar ears’. Sheila Jordan, who was white, married a member of Parker’s quintet and became a familiar figure on stage in New York’s golden years of […]

New York’s arts centre has just rolled out a totally woke new season: Composer Jeanine Tesori is honored as the season’s Lincoln Center Visionary Artist, with stagings of her powerful opera Blue and her musical […]

The Ukrainian-born banker-turned-artist agent Lena Khandros has died unexpectedly in the US after keeping quiet for some time about a serious illness. Having been a v-p on Wall Street and in Singapore, Lena founded Momentum […]

Message from Patrick Togher: My beautiful little Princess has left me to join her beloved Mom in Heaven. Just as she was beginning her new life in Canadian journalism, a massive seizure has taken her […]