The transitioning City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra is advertising for a part-time wellbeing executive, attending one and a half working days a month. It is not clear whose wellbeing is in need of attention. Presumably […]
Choral evensong at 3.30pm today will be the final Winchester service led by director of music Andrew Lumsden. A full house is expected with many singers and music lovers past and present driving in from […]
Heads of the Cleveland Institute of Music, where teachers have voted no-confidence in the leadership, are doing well out of the crisis. President Paul Hogle (pictured) added $180,000 to his pay packet, which now tops […]
Interlochen Arts Academy informs us: Matthew Straw is jumping in as a last minute replacement for Christian Reif with the World Youth Symphony Orchestra at Interlochen on Sunday evening. Matthew is the youngest conductor to […]
The German dramatic mezzo-soprano Ruth Hesse died yesterday,, aged 87. Hesse, a member of the Deutsche Oper Berlin from 1962 to 1995, sang most summers in Bayrteuth or Salzburg. She made a noted Covent Garden […]
The French Sovrintendente of Teatro alla Scala, ousted by a xenophobic new law, has signed on for his next position. Dominique Meyer, 69, is required to give up in Milan on turning 70 next year. […]
The Voice of the Turtle – Jermyn Street Theatre This week’s welcome discovery is a play with a happy ending. Maybe I shouldn’t have told you that. Maybe I just should have said that John van […]
At the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester they are setting their fees low: Salary Grade: £44.30 to £54.44 per hour (dependent on experience) (pending Pay Review) Closing date: 12 Noon, Tuesday 6th August […]
There is uproar in the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra where three musicians have been fired and others have been ordered to reaudition. Those dismissed are a flute player, clarinet and trumpet. The orders of dismissal and […]
‘Is is about masturbating while thinking about God?’ wonders the ABC producer about Hildegard von Bingen. Watch here. The post ABC Classics discusses fenmale orgasms in classiclal music appeared first on Slippedisc.
