Trailblazing US composer, 82
From SAI Composers Bureau: American composer Dr. Diane Thome passed away on January 13, 2025. She was 82. Dr. Thome was the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in Composition from Princeton University, where she […]
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What Joachim felt about his Strad
Professor Robert Eschbach has some fresh insights for us about the recently auctioned Stradivarius violin that once belonged the the formidable Joseph Joachim. Joseph Joachim was the grandson of the internationally prominent wool merchant […]
Dear Alma, They’re making me sing filth
From our agony aunt’s mailbag: Dear Alma, I’m a young American soprano in a mid-sized German state opera. They have offered me Violetta next season on condition I agree to learn some filthy atonal opera […]
Death of French composer, 74
There was a concert last night at Salle Colonne in memory of Bruno Ducol, whose death on January 11 went unreported in French media. A student of Messiaen and Pierre Schaeffer, Ducol became immersed in […]
An enormously intense, personal experience: composer Michael Zev Gordon on writing A Kind of Haunting, his new piece inspired by his family’s experience of the Holocaust
Michael Zev Gordn at site of his grandfather’s murder in Summer 1941 (image from DW video). Any human calamity raises thoughts about how such events might be referred to in music, and how an essentially […]
Georg Osterreich’s Resurrected Treasures: Musica Gloria returns!
We have met Musica Gloria on a number of occasions, most recently in live performance in Edinburgh, Scotland. Here, on the Etcetera label, they offer a selection of North German Cantatas from around 1700. This […]
When ENO went to the USSR
In a exclusive extract from his new memoir, out on February 25, former English National Opera chorus singer Ian Bloomfield remembers an unpredicted opening night in Moscow in 1990. We performed Verdi’s Macbeth at […]
Ruth Leon recommends: Moss – Bernard Kops
Bernard Kops was one of the great post-war Jewish playwrights, poets and novelists, and he died a year ago this week at the age of 97. His first play,The Hamlet of Stepney Green, was produced […]
Rattle rocks the Czechs
It takes more than Mozart balls for a foreigner to conduct the Czech Philharmonic in Slavonic Dances. Hats off to Simon Rattle who brings off every micro-shift in these indigenous dances with aplomb. Enjoy. […]
Yuja plays Rautavaara in Richmond, Virginia
This is pianists without borders. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Virginia Symphony Orchestra (@vasymphony) The post Yuja plays Rautavaara in Richmond, Virginia appeared first on Slippedisc.
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