The Swedish conductor will celebrate his 97th birthday on Thursday with a performance of Bruckner’s ninth symphony.
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The inaugural Cbina-UK Cultural Exchange Programme arrived at St Martin-in-the-Fields on Friday lunchtime, July 18. .The programme brings together musicians from Birmingham (where Artistic Director Di Xiao is a Piano Professor) and its sister cites. […]
This month I’m launching Backgrounders, a monthly illustrated intensive look into a person or event in the arts news that I don’t have space for on Ruth Leon’s Theatrewise. Please let me know if you’d like to receive Backgrounders. There […]
The former head of the Moscow Department of Culture, Alexander Kibovsky, has been arrested and charged with bribery and fraud. He faces up to ten years jail. As in all such cases in Russia at […]
.jpg?w=160&resize=160,160&ssl=1 "Celebrating the eclectic life of pioneering crystallographer Dame Kathleen Lonsdale: Electric Voice Theatre at Conway Hall for Bloomsbury Festival")
.jpg?w=160&resize=160,160&ssl=1 "By turns ravishing & spine-tingling: period instrument orchestra Les Siècles is the star of the show in Berlioz's La damnation de Faust at the BBC Proms conducted by Jakob Lehmann")
