Labour cuts arts by 5%
Rachel Reeves has lopped 5 percent off the budget of the Department of Culture Media Sport and Digital, amid persistent reports that the entire DCMS is to be dismantled. It’s not clear how the cut […]
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Coming to a theatre near you
From next season’s offers at Battersea Arts Centre, south London: The World Premiere of EXXY by Dan Daw Creative Projects, co-produced with BAC Dan, a queer, crippled artist transports the audience to the Australian outback […]
From kazoo & harpsichord to large electronically-augmented ensemble: Alex Paxton’s Delicious on New Amsterdam Records is a multi-layered maximalist delight:
Alex Paxton: Delicious – Scrunchy Touch Sweetly to Fall (kite and finger run), Shrimp BIT Baby Face, Dadd’s Fairies, Justgum Friends, Spit Crystal Yeast-rack dripping (à lorange), Levels of Affection; Dreammusics Ensemble, Nouvel Ensemble Contemporain […]
La Phil calls off concerts amid civil unrest
A sign of our times. The post La Phil calls off concerts amid civil unrest appeared first on Slippedisc.
All concerts and opera are cancelled in Graz
Yesterday’s school shooting, which took 11 lives, has paralysed Austria’s second largest city. All public entertainments have been called off this week, starting with Handel’s Giulio Cesare at the opera. Across the rest of Austria, […]
Window of opportunity: City Music Foundation opens applications for its 2025 programme
CMF Artists Connaught Brass City Music Foundation (CMF) is opening its 2025 programme to applications from Friday 13 June 2025, giving emerging professional performers across classical, jazz, folk and world music genres – both soloists […]
Esprit Submergé: French string quartet Page Blanche give the first UK performances of Luke Styles’ new string quartet
Page Blanche is a string quartet made up of musicians from the Orchestre de Paris, but with a twist they are violin, viola, cello and double bass (Joseph André, Flore-Anne Brosseau, Paul-Marie Kuzma, Ulysse Vigreux). […]
Schubert and Byrd at Wigmore Hall: Mishka Rushdie Momen impresses, again
Schubert, Byrd Mishka Rushdie Momen (piano). Wigmore Hall, London, 1130 am, 8.6.2025 Schubert Piano Sonatas: A minor, D 784 (1823); C minor, D 958 (1828) Byrd Prelude in A minor. Fantasia in A minor. I was […]
Wilson’s final Rachmaninoff installment. I’m glad it’s done.
I really enjoyed John Wilson’s 2022 Rach 3 (much more than his Rach 2), finding his straightforward, no-nonsense approach worked quite well in that piece. So I was really looking forward to hearing what he […]
US musicians fly in for conductor’s 100th birthday
Colonel Arnald Gabriel, a war hero, became conductor of the US Air Force Band. His musicians esteeked him. Watch. The post US musicians fly in for conductor’s 100th birthday appeared first on Slippedisc.
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