The Russian cellist Nina Kotova lost her grip at IMG Artists when its co-woner, her husband Barrett Wissman, was ousted by his Russian partner Alexander Shustorovich.
No-one grieved for Wissman, a self-confessed fraudster. But Kotova, cut off from her agency, had to seek new repoporesentation. She had landed with the off-piste Jack Price Attractions, in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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A Virginia guitarist and composer, Yasmin Williams, reached out politely to interim KenCen chief Richard Grenell for guidance on changes to artist bookings under the Trump administration. The responses she received were off-the-scale personal and […]
The orchestra management has issued a brutal demand to Michael Lam, 63, oboist and cor anglais player, to attend a reaudition or be dismissed without pension. The orchestra’s MD, Ofer Amsalem, wrote to him that […]
In 2017 https://slippedisc.com/2017/06/exclusive-opera-critic-is-hit-with10000-euro-libel-fine/ that the Romanian critic Alexandru Patrascu, a contributor to the London-based Opera magazine, lost a libel case brought against him by the conductor Tiberiu-Ionuț Soare, ex-head of Bucharest National Opera, and the […]
