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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Further to our report yesterday, the New York Philharmonic has ended its interest in Marie-Hélène Bernard of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra as its next president. The search continues. The post NY Phil abandons St […]
The 2025 prize for music goes to Sky Islands, by Susie Ibarra. Sky Islands is a celebration of biodiversity and sonic innovation Ibarra, 54, is California born, the child of two physicians who migrated to […]
Totally unexpected. In 1971, John Rutter published Fancies, a set of six short pieces for choir and chamber orchestra, on texts taken from Elizabethan poets. Rutter explained, “The ‘fancies’ are the fleeting ideas, dreams and […]
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