From the Lebrecht Album of the Week:
If it’s summer music you’re after, it doesn’t come much sunnier than this. Castelnuovo-Tedesco – it translates as Newcastle German – was a Florentine who traced his lineage to the Jews who were expelled from Spain in 1492. Oppressed by Mussolini’s racial laws, he migrated to the US in 1939, his visa sponsored by Jascha Heifetz….
Read on here.
And here.
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The Italian tenor has recorded a smoochy croon with the nation’s heart-throb tennis star, who does not sing. That’ll be love-fifteen. The post Bocelli in Wimbledon warm-up with top-seed Sinner appeared first on […]
It’s the troubled San Antonio Philharmonic, again. Two key backers have demanded the return of $180,000, which they say were loans. The orchestra’s CEO says they will contest this claim in court. No winners here. […]
Sotheby’s is selling the 1714 ’Joachim-Ma’ Stradivarius violin in Feburary, with estimates ranging from $12m to $18 million. All proceeds will go to the New England Consevatory of Music (NEC). The owner’s life story is […]
