Women conductors 2024: Not much progress
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, […]
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Florida cancels all arts grants
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 […]
The Unstoppable Rise of Nikolai Kapustin
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 […]
Ruth Leon recommends… Partenope from San Francisco Opera
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: the London Song Festival celebrates the first Shipping Forecast to be broadcast on British radio
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 […]
Much more than a piece of history: Roderick Cox conducts Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10 at the Royal Academy of Music
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 […]
Chopin 2? So good …
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.
Ruth Leon recommends…. Till the Stars Come Down – National Theatre
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 […]
Canada chief quits over ‘irreconcilable artistic differences’
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 […]
New stick in Geneva
The University of Geneva orchestra has, as of September 2024, its first female conductor. Judith Baubérot is an assistant lecturer at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Genève. Photo: Unige/Balint Hrotko The post New stick […]
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