Dear Alma, I keep getting my professor’s wife
Dear Alma, I am in my final year of my music degree, and I have a problem with my assigned pianist. She is the wife of a Professor, and the worst pianist that they have […]
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Anna Dennis’ serious and intent Susanna was rightly the main focus of John Butt & Dunedin Consort’s involving account of Handel’s neglected oratorio
Anna Dennis Handel: Susanna; Anna Dennis, Alexander Chance, Jessica Cale, Joshua Ellicott, Matthew Brook, Dunedin Consort, John Butt; Church of St Martin in the FieldsReviewed 24 January 2025 Given complete, this wonderfully involving account of […]
%20Steven%20Daverson%202024.JPG?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "Figures outside a Dacha, with Snowfall, and an Abbey in the Background: from Andrei Tarkovsky's Nostalghia to Steven Daverson's new work for orchestra and live electronics")
Figures outside a Dacha, with Snowfall, and an Abbey in the Background: from Andrei Tarkovsky’s Nostalghia to Steven Daverson’s new work for orchestra and live electronics
As part of the BBC Symphony Orchestra‘s Total Immersion: Symphonic Electronics day at the Barbican on Sunday 23 February 2025, Ilan Volkov will be conducting the orchestra in the UK premiere of Steven Daverson‘s Figures […]
Filippo Gorini’s Sonata for 7 Cities project
“The idea is simple: instead of constantly travelling from one concert venue to another, I want to focus on each city for a full month and offer as much as I can to the local […]
Ruth Leon recommends… The American Wing at 100 – Met Museum
The American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum celebrates its 100th anniversary with a reinstallation of its extensive collection of art and design. Newly interpreted galleries on three floors reveal connections across the Wing’s increasingly hemispheric holdings—from […]
Watch: An opera on the 1972 Munich Massacre
Commissioned by Staatsoper Hannover, the opera Echo 72. Israel in München is produced by a creative team with an excellent track record. The libretto is written by Roland Schimmelpfennig, one of the most often performed dramatists of […]
Musicians who look like their pets: (6) Heifetz and the bodyguards
The things a man does to protect himself from media. The post Musicians who look like their pets: (6) Heifetz and the bodyguards appeared first on Slippedisc.
Diana Ross hires the Halle
The Queen of Motown is heading for Manchester this summer. She will perform in the Co-op Live Arena, backed by the Halle Orchestra, England’s second-oldest symphonic ensemble. The tour is titled Diana Ross: A Symphonic […]
It was never enough to play violin
Colin Jacobsen was never going to be rank and file. At an early age he founded the the string quartet Brooklyn Rider and the collaborative orchestra The Knights, which he co-leads with his cellist brother […]
Composer Profile: Jennifer Higdon, American Composer of Beautiful Music
By Barry Lenson We find it reassuring that young Americans are still deciding to become composers. It is more wonderful still that at least one of these younger Americans, Jennifer Higdon, is composing works that […]
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