The international Yehudi Menuhin festival in Gstaad has consigned its future to the violinist Daniel Hope.
The appointment of the new director will be announced tomorrow. Details here.
Hope, 50, grew up Yehudi Menuhin’s knee while his mother, Eleanor, was the legend’s secretary.
The post Menuhin Festival selects a Menuhin protege appeared first on Slippedisc.
We have received a statement claiming to represent 123 musicians of the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestras. It reads: We, musicians of the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestras (MCO) are deeply saddened to learn that our founder […]
A Brahms Intermezzo, played by smokin’ Annie Fischer. The post Better than any mezzo…. appeared first on Slippedisc.
The country’s pioneering saxophonist, founder of the instrument’s only specialist school, has died in Moscow, at 84. Margarita Shaposhnikova was born in Saratov in 1940 and became professor at the Gnessin school. Her proudest moment […]
