David Krauss’s guest this week on Speaking Soundly is jazz singer and Macarthur Fellow Cécile McLorin Salvant, who comes out as a Puccini obssessive.
She says: ‘I wonder what it would be like to be cello 3’.
It’s a fascinating conversation.
Listen here.
The post Speaking Soundly: Sometimes you have a really rough night appeared first on Slippedisc.
The former head of BBC Radio and and BrittenPears Arts has been headhunted to be chief executive of the Rothschild Foundation, distributing patronage to the arts. Sir Roger, 68, will take up residence at the […]
Wagner: The Flying Dutchman – Robert Hayward as The Dutchman and Edgaras Montvidas as Erik/ Steersman – Opera North (Photo: James Glossop) As Opera North’s new production of Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman opened at the […]
The Boston Symphony cellist Luis Leguia had a eureka moment while out sailing on his catamaran. Seeing the new fibreglass materials used in making seaworthy vessels, he wondered if they could not be applied to […]
-5.jpg?w=160&resize=160,160&ssl=1 "Cross-cultural cross currents: Jasdeep Singh Degun with Fantasia Orchestra in Terry Riley's iconic In C performed by string orchestra, piano, sitar and tabla at Smith Square Hall")
