The inimitable Quincy Jones died yesterday, aged 91. A kid off Chicago’s rough South Side, sharing drug fixes with Ray Charles, he won a scholarship to Berklee and wound up studying in Paris with Nadia […]
Sir Michael Hill, founder of the Michael Hill International Violin Competition ‘for emerging young violinists’, died today aged 86. As a teenager he wanted to be a concert soloist, only to be told he had […]
The ex-Russian pianist joins David Krauss this week for Speaking Soundly. Kissin, the precisionist, admits to bring human. He makes mistajes like everyone else. On one occasion he ran out of encores and the audience […]