An extremely rare interview with the grande dame of British pianism, heroine of the Blitz.
She also talks of making false crescendos to mask the noise of flying bombs. ‘When the bomb went away, I made a decrescendo.’
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The Curtis Institute of Music has outbid two other parties to buy the nearby Art Alliance building. It belonged to the University of Arts, which filed for bankruptcy last September. Curtis bid $7.5 million for […]
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2024 has engaged Lithuanian performance-based artist Lina Lapelytė as Composer in Residence. Her duties? Born in Kaunas, Lapelytė is known for a performance-based practice rooted in music, flirting with pop culture, […]
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