The Rudolf Kempe Society has announced the death of Cordula Kempe, widow of the conductor and Artistic Director of the Rudolf Kempe Society. Cordula was 81. She was a most cheerful advocate of her late husband’s legacy.
Rudolf Kempe, former artistic director of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, died in 1976.
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La Divina was born on December 2, 1923. In Manhattan, where else? Maria Anna Cecilia Sofia Kalogeropoulos it said on the birth certificate. The post Maria Callas 101 appeared first on Slippedisc.
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: The second cello concerto of Dmitri Shostakovich has never matched the first in public appeal or soloist appreciation. Premiered on the composer’s sixtieth birthday, at a concert where […]
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 […]
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