John Williams, in wheelchair, greets the LA Phil

Many years ago I used to work at that peculiar custom-built round building which was the BBC Television Centre. It was a stange and inconvenient place to work. The studios were far from the offices, the […]

Charles Haupt was barely shaving when the San Antonio Symphony signed him as concertmaster back in the day. Lukas Foss swooped in 1966 to bring him to the Buffalo Philharmonic, where he served for 37 […]

From an informed slippedisc.com reader: Without wanting to deny the obvious managerial issues during Davies’ tenure at OA (summarised in some of the other comments, some entirely valid observations, but also some sexism/ignorance on display), […]