A rare video has com to light from John Amis’s private archive.
Grainger, in his 70s at the time, was not on top of his game, but fascinating nonetheless.
He remains Australia’s most successful composer.
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Verdi: Simon Boccanegra – Roland Wood, Antony Hermus, Vazgen Gazaryan, Opera North (Photo: James Glossop) Verdi: Simon Boccanegra; Roland Wood, Sara Cortolezzis, Andrés Presno, Vazgen Gazaryan, Mandla Mndebele, Richard Mosley-Evans, director: PJ Harris, conductor: Anthony […]
The funeral is taking place of the composer Sofia Gubaidulina, self-exiled from mother Russia and settled for the last quarter of her long life in the quietude of northern Germany. She is being buried in […]
From the great man’s maiden speech in the House of Lords in 1993, newly uploaded on Youtube. ‘Music is the one art,’ he says, ‘that can create order out of chaos.’ The post […]
