New online: Martha plays Mendelssohn

A number of reports are suggesting that the Lang Lang effect is wearing off among the Chinese middle-classes. New piano sales in China are thought to be down to half of the peak 400,000 and […]

The death has been communicated of Dominic Cossa, a stalwart Met baritone in the 1970s and beyond. One record, he sang opposite Joan Sutherland and Luciano Pavarotti in L’elisir d’amore and in Handel’s Giulio Cesare […]

Ginette DePriest has published a memoir of her late husband James DePreist.     The post The maestro who overcame polio (and color prejudice) appeared first on Slippedisc.