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.
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This CD was a challenge to get my hands on. It is currently available only as a download (or streaming), and though the CD has been listed on Presto for a few weeks, it has […]
The president of the Kapan Festival in Armenia has written to slippedisc.com, denying a report that Martha Argerich had been hospitalised. Martha’s daughter Annie Dutoit has posted on social media: My mother Martha Argerich has […]
Slippedisc, courtesy of OperaVision, is streaming Die Fledermaus today. Johann Strauss II’s comic operetta in three acts premiered in 1874 and has become a synonym of the operetta genre. In only six years, the operetta […]
