classical music

This is the 100th birthday of one of the greatest jazz pianists of all time – Oscar Peterson. Oscar Emmanuel Peterson was born in Montreal on 15th  August  1925 and died in Toronto on 23 […]

When Giuseppe Verdi encountered the drama about the King of the Huns by the German Romantic poet Zacharias Werner, he saw its potential as opera. Although audiences and the press initially welcomed the premiere in […]

The great satirist tells Roy Plomley he has ‘not that wide’ tastes in music. The post Tom Lehrer on Desert Island Discs appeared first on Slippedisc.

Message received: Yankees legend and Latin Grammy-nominated guitarist Bernie Williams will take the stage at Carnegie Hall on January 13 at 8PM alongside international operatic tenor Jonathan Tetelman (pic). The duo will perform a variety […]

During Covid lockdown, a group of artists applied to the courts in Munich to declare the Government’s closure of concert halls illegal. The group included the singer Christian Gerhaher (pic), the conductor Thomas Hengelbrock and […]

Ten days ago, we reported that the grants-giving portal at ACE had shut down and no-one was getting any money. Today, we’ve seen a message (below) saying it is still not repaired. The ACE has […]

Message from the South African cellist Peter Martens, a member of the Capetown Philharmonic: Unfortunately, not everyone has the money to buy a seat for their cello even though it may be valuable. Mine is […]

John Aylward’s opera film “Oblivion” has won the Best Musical Film award at Cannes World Film Festival. Aylward, a Boston composer and librettist, had intended his work for the live stage. But Covid intervened and […]

A reaction to the Trump awards from the composer and pianist David Chesky: Once upon a time—say, in 1978—the Kennedy Center Honors were a kind of secular cathedral service for American genius. Marian Anderson, Fred […]