The widely acclaimed ‘father of British blues’ has died aged 90 in California, where he moved in the 1970s.
His Bluesbreakers group is remembered chiefly for the couple of years in the mid-1960s when Eric Clapton was their guitarist.
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The Sarasota Orchestra has chosen Giancarlo Guerrero as its next music director from 2025, succeeding Bramwell Tovey, who died two years ago. Guerrero, 55, from Nicaragua, is also music director in Nashville, Tennessee, where he […]
Happy birthday to People’s Artist of the USSR, artistic director and principal conductor of the Tchaikovsky Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Fedoseyev. All round, the best Tchaikovsky conductor of his time. Certainly in the ballets and […]
We are sad to learn of the death of Yehudi Menuhin’s beloved daughter Zamira, a benign and constructive figure in musical affairs. The child of Menuhin’s first marriage to Nola Nicholas, he have her the […]
