In today’s birthday honours, King Charles has bestowed well-deserved knighthoods on the church composer John Rutter and the outgoing BrittenPears chief Roger Wright, a former head of the BBC Proms and Radio 3.
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Sotheby’s are selling a very scarce first edition next week of Handel’s Giulio Cesare. [Giulio Cesare] Julius Caesar: an Opera. Compos’d by G. Frederick Handel, of London, Gent., London: Cluer, [1724] FIRST EDITION, [6], 118 […]
From Joseph Horowitz’s survey of the Met’s present tribulations in the New York Review of Books: Of the Met’s earliest Aida broadcasts, the most esteemed (it is readily available on youtube) was aired on February […]
Paraguayan classical guitarist Berta Rojas has been fulfilling a dream to explore the guitar’s history and evolution in Latin America starting with the 15th century, from the arrival of the vihuela and early guitars brought by […]
