The conductor is quoted in the Times this morning: ‘The government is in such a hurry to commoditise music on behalf of the AI companies they have failed to account for the thousands of hours […]
“Consider the scenario where all live, organically-produced music, whether professional or amateur, suddenly vanished globally. The absence would profoundly affect people everywhere.” The above comes from a statement released by Music Will Save The World, […]
9 Church Walk, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, home of Imogen Holst from 1964 to 1984 (Photo: © Historic England Archive) A relatively unassuming modernist house in Aldeburgh, 9 Church Walk, has just been listed at Grade II […]
A coupling of the Elgar Violin Concerto and Violin Sonata today; plus, a truncated performance of the concerto, all led by Albert Sammons. Born in 1886 in West London, Sammons’ remarkable life includes leaving school […]
Henry James died 109 years ago this week on 28 February 1916. He was an American-British author, regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to […]
The organ world is mourning Professor Edoardo Bellotti, a leading expert in Renaissance and Baroque keyboard repertory. Edorardo, who taught at the Eastman School of Music, died in his Italian home town, Pavia, of an […]
This is from the Eastern Music Festival in Greensboro, North Carolina: Dear EMF Alumni, Earlier today, Eastern Music Festival’s Board of Directors announced the cancellation of our 2025 season which was to have run from […]
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, born 178 years ago this week, on 25th February 1841, was a French Impressionist painter whose eye for beauty made him one of the movement’s most popular practitioners. He is best known for […]
A devoted reader has sent us this clipping from the Honolulu Star Bulletin of Betsy Arakawa at her piano debut in 1971, playing one movement of Haydn’s G major concerto. Betsy became the second wife […]
The BBC’s chief content officer Charlotte Moore resigned today to join Sony Pictures. Moore, 56, had been seen as the likely next D-G, successor-in-waiting to Tim Davie (pic). She has been with the BBC for […]
