Local philanthropist Penelope Steiner has signed a check to her favourite opera house, where she is deputy board chair.
The gift is described as ‘unprecedented, unrestricted’.
The post Chicago Lyric receives $25 million unrestricted gift appeared first on Slippedisc.
The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra has promoted Robert McGrath to President and CEO. He has been with the orchestra for 13 years, four of them as COO, and he gets on well with music director Cristian […]
Hildegard of Bingen O vis aeternitatis Mahler Symphony No. 2 in C minor, ‘Resurrection’ (1888-94) Kent Nagano (conductor); Jane Archibald (soprano); Christina Bock (mezzo); Phiharmonia Chorus & Orchestra Royal Festival Hall, London , 19 March […]
There are many artworks entitled The Kiss – Rodin, Klimt, Toulouse-Lautrec, etc – but this one is remarkable for being the very first on-screen kiss. It happened in April 1896, between actors May Irwin and […]
