The much-loved instrument maker George Stoppani died over Christmas. Aside from making instruments he created a brand of ‘Real Guts Strings’ and was an international authority on instrumental acoustics.
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The Saxon soprano Barbara Hoene has died, aged 80. She spent 36 years as a soloist of the Semper Oper in Dresden, where she was appointed Kammersängerin, She married the violinist Klaus Hoene and retired […]
Tip a hat to Grammy-nominated Brian Pidgeon who is, we think, the most prolific record producer in the UK. Brian has made around 400 recordings. He was Simon Rattle’s first record producer with the Merseyside […]
The Brooklyn Academy of Music has unseated its president Gina Duncan after a three-year term. Neither side is saying why. Duncan was the first non-white person to head BAM and she arrived with excellent qualifications. […]
