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Stephen Goist (pic) and Katherine Spencer have been named principal viola and clarinet of the Handel and Haydn Orchestra. Goist is a member of the San Francisco Opera Orchestra. Katherine was principal clarinet at the […]

The death has been made known of Rodolfo Saglimbeni, Principal Conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra of Chile for the past six years. Before that, he was artistic director of the Municipal Symphony Orchestra of […]

… and going strong. No-one like her anywhere. Ever. OK, maybe Clara Schumann. No-one else. The post Martha Argerich, 84 today appeared first on Slippedisc.

We hear that Marcus Davey is stepping down after 26 years running the Roundhouse, London’s most eclectic and youth oriented music venue. On the fringe of Camden Market, he’s put on everything from baroque opera […]

IMG Artists has added two touring executives to cope with an expanding business. Both V-Ps have been poached from Intermusica, which is reeling. Details here. The post Biz news: Orchestra touring is hotting up appeared […]

The blended Scotch whisky brand has neded six years of lead sponsorship for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. They have no replacement. The city is proposing to impose an overnight tax on visitors from next year […]

Indiana Bible College has filed a libel suit against composer Rosephayne Powell and her publisher Fred Bock Music Co. after she alleged on social media that the the school unlawfully based a viral hit song […]

The former shining light of the former English National Opera is to appear with Northern Ireland Opera in Stephen Sondheim’s Follies. Leslie gushes: ‘I’m so excited to be coming back to Belfast and especially to […]

A Slippedisc subscriber has written to Pope Leo, proposing the beatification of the Austrian composer. Why not? Bruckner was Catholic,lived a blameless life and wrote screeds of sonorous solemnities for the mother Church. Drop a […]

The Vienna State Opera’s performance of Jacques Bizet’s Carmen was stopped on Tuesday after health and safety officials became concerned at the sight of smoke rising on stage. An opera official later confirmed that there […]