The conductor Susanna Mälkki (pictured, 3rd right) has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of the Arts Helsinki.
Who knew the Finns went in for funny hats?
Goodness,
this one’s worse.
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The German pianist and conductor is leaking snippets from his forthcoming authorised biography. He is open about his relationship with both women and men, among them an affair with Bernstein: ‘I had an intellectual and […]
Concert of the week by Simon Rattle and the BRSO – Three French composers, eclectic to a fault. The post Stick out the Boulez, stay for Ravel appeared first on Slippedisc.
The opening of Jake Heggie’s opera Moby Dick at the Metropolitan Opera was sufficiently newsworthy for the London Times to commission a first-night review from Kevin Ng. The article went on line at lunchtime, London […]
