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 recent kerfuffles at the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra are having wider repercussions. A Swedish rock group at the Utilita Arena caused long street queues by insisting that all patrons surrender their phones before […]
This is journalism in the raw, Tim Page telephoning Glenn Gould in October 1980. Tim kept the tapes, which have now been uploaded online by the Gould Foundation. ‘I want this to be a different […]
It’s the troubled San Antonio Philharmonic, again. Two key backers have demanded the return of $180,000, which they say were loans. The orchestra’s CEO says they will contest this claim in court. No winners here. […]
