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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Buffet Crampon, makers of Boehm clarinets and much else, has acquired the percussion instrument makers Bergerault. BC also owns Rigoutat, Powell Flutes and multiple other brands. The post French instrument makers complete takeover appeared first […]
Police have put out an appeal for sightings of Hanna Balcer, a 14 year-old schoolgirl who went missing after leaving her parents’ home on April 24. She was last seen at around 7.50pm on April […]
We have been notified of the passing of Marie-Noëlle Damien, a semi-finalist at the Queen Elisabeth Competition who made a couple of recordings for EMI. She was, for many years, a student of Evgeny Malinin. […]
