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Brass to the fore: this year’s Cumnock Tryst is a tribute to the late Scottish trumpeter John Wallace & a celebration of the tradition of brass band music in the Ayrshire coalfields Meditations on life, death and Taoist wisdom: Phelim McDermott & Philip Glass’s Tao of Glass, @sohoplace theatre A new interdisciplinary research programme for composers, performers, scholars and practitioners Vasily Petrenko and the RPO in Wagner and Taneyev Rising to the challenge: Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia from Royal Academy Opera directed by Paul Carr & conducted by Lada Valesova

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Slipped Disc November 30, 2024

Concertmaster, 91

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The Zagreb Soloists have announced the death of their long serving concertmaster, Tonko Ninić.

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Slipped Disc August 2, 2025

Before the brightness of dawn

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Slipped Disc April 23, 2025

Dvorak expert is UCLA chief

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The Herb Alpert School of Music at UCLA has named Michael Beckerman as its new dean. Beckerman is a proper scholar, probably the foremost non-Czech expert on the life and works of Antonin Dvorak. The […]

Slipped Disc June 2, 2024

Winchester Cathedral: More storm clouds

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We hear that the Precentor, Andy Trenier, was listed to preside and preach at Winchester Cathedral this morning but has stood down. We hear also that employment lawyers have been consulted. A long letter in […]