Music director Thomas Søndergård had scheduled a program of Ethel Smyth and Tchaikovsky. When he fell ill, Chad Goodman jumped in. The concert was included a fascinating interval discussion between members of the orchestra and […]
It has been three years since our last power list of women conductors, and most of the names remain the same. Cuddly pictures of three women at Bayreuth confirm a perceptual shift but, with Chicago, […]
Governor Ron DeSantis, whose recent run for Republican Party presidential nomination crashed and burned at vast expense, has peremptorily abolished $32 million of funding for arts groups that had been bilaterally approved by the state […]
Pianist Frank Dupree’s latest escapades Nikolai Kapustin (1937-2020) is gaining in popularity: in the UK, Dupree has performed his music with the Philharmonia Orchestra and Rouvali, and we met his Op. 47 Contemplation, Op. 47 […]
Partenope from San Francisco Opera Tickets for the stream are $27.50. Click here More from San Francisco Opera which is livestreaming one performance of each of its operas during its Summer Season. The second livestream […]
The Sea and Ships: a celebration of the first Shipping Forecast to be broadcast on British radio; Jess Dandy, Gareth Brynmor John, Nigel Foster, Simon Butteriss; London Song Festival at Hinde Street Methodist ChurchReviewed 21 […]
Academy Symphony Orchestra in the Duke’s Hall, Royal Academy of Music just before performing Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10 Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10; Academy Symphony Orchestra, Roderick Cox; Duke’s Hall, Royal Academy of MusicReviewed 21 June […]
Splendid performance this month by Alexandre Kantorow with conductor Cristian Macelaru and French Radio orchestra. The post Chopin 2? So good … appeared first on Slippedisc.
Till the Stars Come Down – National Theatre Click here to watch – subscription Everyone loves a wedding… It’s Sylvia and Marek’s wedding and we are all invited. Over the course of a hot summer’s […]
The general director of the Orchestre philharmonique du Québec, Jean-Marc Léveillé, left the organisation this month, citing ‘irreconcilable divergences between the general management and the artistic director, Alexandre Da Costa’. One of Léveillé’s supporters speaks […]
