Watch: Horowitz plays White House recital for Jimmy Carter
The way we were. The President introduces a pianist’s anniversary recital. Unmissable. The post Watch: Horowitz plays White House recital for Jimmy Carter appeared first on Slippedisc.
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Finlandia is back
Helsinki’s Finlandia Hall will reopen tomorrow after three years of refurbishment. Designed by Alvar Aalto, the landmark venue has been reconfigured as an all-day venue, with restaurants and other facilities, including two Aalto-designed apartments for […]
Colon mourns vital technical director
Enrique Bordolini, Technical Director of Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, died on Monday at 75. Bordolini’s remarkable career at Teatro Colón began in 1964. He was a master of stagecraft and theatrical lighting, serving as […]
English luthier dies, 75
The much-loved instrument maker George Stoppani died over Christmas. Aside from making instruments he created a brand of ‘Real Guts Strings’ and was an international authority on instrumental acoustics. The post English luthier […]
Major choral music scholar, RIP
The death has been shared of William Mahrt, professor of Medieval and Renaissance music at Stanford University and editor of the journal Sacred Music. He was 84. William Mahrt directed the Stanford Early Music Singers […]
Ruth Leon recommends: Serving Elizabeth – Stratford Festival
Serving Elizabeth Click here for tickets In this ingenious contemporary drama, two parallel narratives seem only coincidentally connected, until a surprising twist reveals a deeper relationship between the two. In Kenya in 1952, Mercy, a […]
A New Year’s party with Vladimir Horowitz at the piano
It’s a minute past midnight in New York on January 1, 1954. The partygoers include Rose Bampton-Wilfrid Pelletier Mr. & Mrs. S. Chotzinoff Blair Chotzinoff Mr. & Mrs. Yashia Merovich Guido Cantelli-Iris Cantelli Walter Toscanini […]
Archbishop fires music director over Christmas
There were protests during Christmas mass at Freiburg Cathedral over clerical plans to remove the popular head of the Choir School, Boris Böhmann, after 22 years’ service. ‘The Holy Masses were deliberately disrupted, and there […]
Thielemann bleeds in New Year’s concert
From the Berliner Zeitung: …How dangerous real music making can be was also shown on this last evening of 2024 at the State Opera. Christian Thielemann injured himself on the sharp edge of a score […]
Kalevi Aho: String Quartets from BIS
It seems amazing to me that I have not yet featured any music by the Finnish composer Kalevi Aho (born 1949). These three quartets date from 1967, 1970 and 1971; Aho’s First Symphony was born […]
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