Today, I am proud to celebrate my father, Oscar Dudamel, on the announcement of his upcoming salsa album, Sueño Alcanzado, out May 30 on Platoon.
Salsa music has been a part of my life since childhood – when I was young, I even dreamed of playing the trombone in a salsa band, but my arms were too short! Even to this day, the rhythms of this wonderful art from continue to echo in my conducting work.
Gavin Higgins: Horn Concerto, Fanfare, Air and Flourishes, The Faerie Bride; Ben Goldscheider, Marta Fontanals-Simmons, Roderick Williams, Three Choirs Festival Chorus, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Jaime Martin, Martyn Brabbins; LyritaReviewed 25 February 2025 Two […]
A reader informs us that Windows in Newcastle, an outstanding record shop with a colossal stock of classical CDs, has closed after 115 years as a purveyor of good music. Shops like Windows will never […]
Sothebys are selling a trove of 1,500 love letters between the Vienna-born Oxford composer and musicologist Egon Wellesz (1885–1974) and the poet Elizabeth Mackenzie (1921–2021), Vice-Principal of Lady Margaret Hall. Wellesz lived in ‘a very […]