The death has been announced of Berlin’s ensemble mosaik founder Bettina Junge, after a long illness.
Originally from Cologne, she was passionately committed to contemporary composers, taking board positions with Berlin’s Gesellschaft für Neue Musik and Neue Musik Berlin.
She gave her last concert performance 13 months ago.
The post Leading flute dies, 56 appeared first on Slippedisc.
Christina Rossetti’s 1862 poem Goblin Market tells the story of sisters Laura and Lizzie, who are tempted with fruit by goblin merchants. The poem is interpreted frequently as having features of remarkably sexual imagery, and has been viewed […]
Stravinsky: The Rake’s Progress – Adam Temple-Smith, Michael Mofidian – The Grange Festival (Photo: Craig Fuller) June on Planet Hugill: Holland Park, the Grange, Aldeburgh, Glyndebourne and beyond. Our latest newsletter has landed on MadMimi and on […]
Alexandra Pakhmutova, composer of ‘Nadezhda’ and other Soviet schlaggers, turned 95 last week. Her biggest fan, Vladimir Putin, sent a message. The Bolshoi was packed with acolytes. Yuri Bashmet conducted, just about. Ildar Abdarazakov, Hibla […]
