The brilliant Bossa Nova pioneer has died in Los Angeles, aged 83. The cause, say his family, was long Covid.
Mendes settled in the US in the 1960s amid political and military turbulence in Brazil that saw him briefly arrested. His theme song (below) became an everlasting earworm.
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The death has been reported of Choo Hoey, founder of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra and an international conductor in Brussels, London, Oslo, Athens and Beijing. He was 90. National Arts Council Singapore writes: We are […]
Rising concern about Arts Cancel England (ACE) has prompted librarians at the House of Lords to prepare a really useful couple of charts on how opera has been centrally funded over the past eight years. […]
The 2025 Grawemeyer music composition award, worth US$100,000, has gone to a Londoner, Christian Mason, for his work Invisible Threads. The piece, lasting 70 minutes, employs ‘a spatially shifting ensemble of 12 musicians and encourages […]
