Kafka’s Metamorphosis – Royal Ballet To recognise the 100th anniversary of Franz Kafka’s death this week, I found this excerpt from Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka’s 1915 novella, adapted as a ballet by choreographer Arthur Pita. It had […]
Message from Domestica Rotterdam: Domestica will stop After a long time of weeks and weighed a button: Domestica Rotterdam will stop. Financial uncertainty, losing a permanent playing spot, little opportunity to repeat concerts, new ambitions […]
San Francisco Symphony’s Chief Artistic Officer, Phillippa Cole, is joining the Opus 3 agency as Senior Vice President. Previously at the LA Phil, she formed a close partnership with Esa-Pekka Salonen in San Francisco. She […]
Fresh up on Youtube, the third concerto is one of Martha’s lifelong warhorses. Be amazed. The post Martha Argerich, 83 today, plays Prokofiev in Hiroshima appeared first on Slippedisc.
It’s the Artis. Formed in Vienna, they have been playing together over four decades and have decided to take a rest. First violin Peter Schuhmayr tells slippedisc.com: ‘We think it is time to officially announce […]
The Cleveland Orchestra has upgraded Daniel Reith to Associate Conductor with immediate effect. He is presently Music Director of The Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra, with around 100 middle and high-school musicians. The post Cleveland promotes […]
Frederick Ashton, from Sarasota 2024.iv.05 by Alastair Macaulay Since choreography presents dance in terms of time and space, its greatest achievements make us feels time and space as never before. Frederick Ashton (1904-1988), founder choreographer […]
The death has been notified of Kenneth Krohn, seen here jamming with Mehta and Perlman in the 1980s IPO. His last positions were Adjunct Professor of Percussion at Montgomery College, Maryland, and timpanist of the […]
Les Siecles have lost a November tour to Korea and Japan following ots conductor Francois-Xavier Roth’s suspension over indecent images. The local organisers ‘sincerely apologise’ for the inconvenience and promise ‘to do our best to […]
The conductor, 81, plans to end his enforced sabbatical next month with a concert in Montpellier. He will conduct the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France in the south of France in Weber’s Oberon overture, Beethoven’s […]
