The formidable organist and pianist Alena Štěpánková-Veselá has died two months short of her 102nd birthday.
She taught for more than half a cnetury at the Faculty of Music of the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts in her birthplace, Brno
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The pianist Charles Wadsworth, Spoleto’s founding Artistic Director of Chamber Music, has died in New York. He also created and ran the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, from 1969 to 1989. Charles is survived […]
Silent film Star Harold Lloyd died 54 years ago on 8th March 1971 at the age of 77. Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton may be more famous today, but in the 1920s Harold Lloyd was […]
A mass performance by 2,500 singers in Montreal. Somewhat imperfect but strangely moving. The post Hallelujah as never before appeared first on Slippedisc.
