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.
The post Long Covid kills Sergio Mendes appeared first on Slippedisc.
BBC and Young Sounds UK Exchange programme in 2022 (Photo: BBC) The five BBC orchestras – the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, BBC National Orchestra of Wales and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra – […]
Schubert: Trout Quintet – Mikhail Kopelman, Loïc Rio, Laurent Marfaing, François Kieffer, Grigory Kovalevsky, Elisabeth Leonskaja (Photo © Nathanael Charpentier / © Association La Clé des Portes) First concert (presented by Clément Rochefort)JS Bach: Cello […]
This is the barrier that greeted concertgoers attempting to attend the Concertgebouw tonight for a performance by the Jerusalem Quartet. The hall management is still living in a state of terror. We hear also that […]
.png?w=160&resize=160,160&ssl=1 "The Continuo Foundation invites applications for its 11th round of funding with £106,000 available including a partnership with The Purcell Society")
