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The Greek musicologist and senior music critic George Leotsakos died this week, aged 89. Born in Athens, on the 9th of August 1935, he studied with composers Kostas Kydoniatis and Yannis Andreou Papaïoannou, graduating from […]

I am greatly saddened to learn that Alexander Waugh has died, far too soon, of prostate cancer. Among his many writings, he was opera critic of the Mail on Sunday and the Evening Standard in […]

The much-recorded Valerie Tryon passed 90 last month without fuss. She has lived in Canada since 1976 and is being celebrated this week at a concert at McMaster University. Details here. The post An English […]