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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A professor at the University of Manitoba, Oleg Pokhanovski, has been charged in Winnipeg with sexual assault on a teenaged private pupil. The alleged incidents took place between 2007 and 2010. Pokhanovski, 55, reported voluntarily […]
Message from the Greek conductor Zoe Zenodi: ‘I seriously have no words to describe my happiness!! I have been chosen as the new Music Director and Chief Conductor at the Orquesta Filarmónica de Buenos Aires […]
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