US harp legend, 90
The death has been made known of Susann McDonald, co-founder and artistic director of the World Harp Congress. Susann was three days past her 90th birthday. A student of Lily Laskine in Paris, she followed […]
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LA grabs Liverpool maestro
The Venezuelan conductor Domingo Hindoyan, chief of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra for the past four years, has been named music director of LA Opera from July 2026. Hindoyan, 45, is married to the star […]
.jpg?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "A terrific sense of collaboration: composer Colin Matthews and writer William Boyd on their first opera, A Visit to Friends")
A terrific sense of collaboration: composer Colin Matthews and writer William Boyd on their first opera, A Visit to Friends
William Boyd and Colin Mathews (Photo: Mark Allan) During his long career the composer Colin Matthews has been associated with several other composers, he assisted both Benjamin Britten and Imogen Holst at the Aldeburgh Festival, […]
Benjamin Grosvenor’s Chopin
This is core repertoire, so it needs to be special. It is. For his ninth recording with Decca (he signed in 2011, when he became the youngest British musician and the first British pianist in over sixty […]
A concert of works by transgender composers
In Kansas City. Who’d have thought? The post A concert of works by transgender composers appeared first on Slippedisc.
A little Luto for the weekend
Why don’t we hear more Lutoslawski? So much wit and worldliness. The post A little Luto for the weekend appeared first on Slippedisc.
Ruth Leon recommends… Just in Time – Beyond The Sea – Jonathan Groff
Bobby Darin Just in Time, the musical about the late Bobby Darin, was the only major Tony contender I didn’t manage to see while I was in New York, although I tried, but here, to […]
Spoleto founder dies, 96
The pianist Charles Wadsworth, Spoleto’s founding Artistic Director of Chamber Music, has died in New York. He also created and ran the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, from 1969 to 1989. Charles is survived […]
Franz and Alice take the weekend off
The Vienna Philharmonic has replaced an unwell Franz Welser-Möst in four concerts next weekend with Ivan Fischer. The programme is unchanged: Haydn’s 52nd, followed by Das Lied von der Erde. Minnesota Orchestra, too will have […]
Alastair Macaulay: Where Faust and Parsifal come horribly unstuck
Our resident critic has spent two nights at the opera: When the full history of sin is written, I hope it attends to why so many artists of the nineteenth century paid such great attention […]
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