Belgian composer, 85
The proto-modernist Frederik van Rossum died this week leaving a body of mostly piano works and a bevy of publishers whom he sacked. His In memoriam Glenn Gould for piano, opus 43 of 1984 deserves […]
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Alastair Macaulay reviews two must-try-harders and a dud
This week’s Alastair Macaulay Review is a triple-header of current operas. Two should have been bigger and better. The third was embarrasingly ludicrous. Read on: 1: Mary Queen of Scots – English National Opera, February […]
Cleveland picks makeshift conductor
The floundering Cleveland Institute of Music has hired Tito Munoz to stand in for two years while it reorganises orchestral teaching. They put a bold face on it in a puffy announcement: Roll out the […]
Simon Rattle to Labour Government: Your AI plan will stunt music
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 […]
Opera is Us: Exploring the transformative power of music with Anna Starushkevych’s Music Will Save The World & a new film inspired by personal experience
“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, […]
Now Grade II Listed, this unassuming modernist house in Aldeburgh, was home to Imogen Holst, has links to her father, & was built by architects who worked on the 1951 Festival of Britain
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 […]
Albert Sammons plays Elgar
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 […]
Ruth Leon recommends… Henry James – American Novelist
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 […]
Renaissance organist dies, 67
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 […]
US festival is cancelled, blaming unions
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 […]
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