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 […]
Mannes School of Music is planning a US premiere of Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s The Silent Serenade. Written in the late 1940s when Korngold was at the peak of his Hollywood success, it failed to make […]
From a forthright interview by Jeffrey Arlo Brown with violinist Michael Barenboim for VAN magazine: Would you describe yourself as an anti-Zionist? I definitely don’t see the point in trying to maintain this ideology […]