On the morning that the first candidates started playing in the Reine Elisabeth competition in Brussels, the Chopin Competition chose to announce its candidates for October. Some are apparently dropouts from Brussels. The competition scene […]
The Sixties singer and Mick Jagger girlfriend died today in London aged 78. Austrian-Jewish on her mother’s side, Marianne grew up in the north of England in considerable poverty. Starting out as a folk singer, […]