classical music

It’s the new Valentine’s Day. Equal opportunity chocolates and roses. Palentine’s Day. Not a typo. Not to be confused with anything else on the news. From a classical station’s promo: Forget the card and chocolates, […]

The ailing easy-listening station has splashed out on a cross-media advertising campaign in a bid to boost droopy ratings. Classic has created a TV ad to be shown on primtetime ITV shows and during England’s […]

Deborah Rutter, in a letter to colleagues in the music business, has made it clear that when she leaves the Kennedy Center at the end of this year she does not plan to hang up […]

Click here to watch It’s Wakes Week in Hindle; the mill is closed and the workers are idle. Fanny Hawthorn is relaxing at the seashore with a girlfriend when she runs into Alan Jeffcote, the […]

Andreas Ottensamer has just issued this message: I have decided to step down from my position as principal clarinet of the Berlin Philharmonic, in order to fully dedicate to my activities as a conductor. The […]

Deborah Rutter, President of the Kennedy Center since 2014, has decided to quit at the end of this year. She has given no reason. Might have something to do with the Trump era. Rutter, 68, […]

Here’s the orchestra’s publicity for its next concerts. Your thoughts? The post Gustav is not Gustavo: LA Phil goes off the scale appeared first on Slippedisc.

The Euskadiko Orkestra in the Basque region of Spain today abruptly terminated the contracts of chief conductor Robert Trevino and general director Oriol Roch. Trevino, who had been in the post for eight years, had […]