Season’s Greetings from all at Planet Hugill

The Russian violinist Rosa Fain, a pupil and later stage partner of David Oistrakh, has died in Dusseldorf, where she was Professor at the School of Music for many years. Like her teacher, she was […]

We hear that Wasfi Kani at Grange Park Opera has engaged the orchestra of English National Opera for her forthcoming Ring cycle, which opens next summer with Rheingold. This is a brilliant swoop, employing an […]

The singer-songwriter posted this reminiscence four years ago: Fun fact, the titular line for “You Can Call Me Al” was inspired by an amusing misunderstanding at a party. One evening in the early 1970s, French […]