Stephen Sondheim would have been 95 today and in celebration here’s a little gem. Imelda Staunton performs ‘Losing my mind’ from Follies, recorded live at the National Theatre in 2017 in the production directed by Dominic Cooke, featuring an orchestra of 21. On YouTube.
We have learned belatedly of the death in October of the influential Swedish composer Jan W. Morthenson. He was 84. Morthenson developed three periods and styles – non-figurative music, meta-music and existentialist music. The first […]
The Canadian soprano Joyce El-Khoury will sing a role debut as Hélène in Verdi’s Sicilian Vespers at Covent Garden next month, her first attemot at the role. She replaces Marina Rebeka who is unwell. Speranza […]
Today’s 200th birthday of Anton Bruckner is being religiously observed in his hometown Linz and nearby villages. Here’s the schedule: Midnight at the Mariendom: Bells and imported sounds 4am in the birthplace at Ansfelden: musical […]
