The Aizuri Quartet, a major sponsor of new works, has let it be known it’s giving its last concert next month, in New York. The quartet, founder in 2012, consists of violinists Emma Frucht and Miho Saegusa, violist Brian Hong and cellist Caleb van der Swaagh. Saegusa is the only remaining founding member.
No reason has been given for the break-up.
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Gareth Ritter, conductor of Ebbw Valley Brass Band and the Lydbrook Band, has been sent to trial in Cardiff charged with sexual assault, two counts of making an indecent image of a child, and one […]
Czech media have reported the death of Jiří Žigmund, violist of the Wuhan Quartet from 1988 to 2014. He has suffered longterm health problems. The post Famed violist dies at 58 appeared first on Slippedisc.
Melodrama as a dramatic musical genre has a somewhat patchy history. Whilst Mozart would say of Georg Benda’s melodramas ‘I love these two works so much that I carry them with me’, and indeed works like […]
