Saariaho’s delusions live on

The President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities has been scrapped in an executive order, it was discovered overnight. Past members of the largely symbolic committee include Frank Sinatra and Yo Yo Ma. Present […]

We have been informed of the passing of Michel Poulet, cellist of the Ysaye Quartet, which disbanded in 2014. Poulet went on to teach at the Conservatoire in Toulouse. The post Death of Ysaye Quartet […]

Alastair Macaulay reviews the Royal Ballet’s latest for slippedisc.com: Encounters: Four Contemporary Ballets by Alastair Macaulay The Royal Ballet, as if proclaiming that we have entered a great era of new ballet choreography, is beginning […]