Eyra Norman, Abhisri Chaudhuri, Nicky Spence The London Song Festival and Schubert Society have announced the winners of the 2024 London Song Festival Masterclass & Schubert Song Prize Competition. The 2024 Masterclass and Schubert Song […]
Nicolas de Staël (1914-1955) was a Russian-born French painter whose turbulent life often overshadowed his short career. Composer John Casken describes de Staël’s canvases as being as vibrant and vivid of any artist working at […]
On the Transmigration of Souls: Haydn, Kurtág, Adams. Anna Devin (soprano); Hanna Hipp (mezzo); Rupert Charlesworth (tenor); Trevor Eliot Bowes (bass); Tiffin Youth Choir; London Philharmonic Choir; Jonathan Green (sound designer); London Philharmonic Orchestra / […]
The German tenor has issued a short video in the wake of press reports that he was following Placido Domingo into the darker depths. The reports were triggered by his Vienna appearance in I Pagliacci, […]
D.W. Griffith – Film Director David Wark Griffith was born on January 22nd, 1875, in Crestwood, Kentucky, so this is his 150th birthday. This American film director, producer and screenwriter, best known for Birth of […]
That can’t be a German dog, surely. It looks too heimisch. photo: Instagram The post Musicians who look like their pets: (2) Bernstein and his Dachshund appeared first on Slippedisc.
We learn from 4barsrest that Kaitlin Wild has been appointed Principal Second Trumpet with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. She is also a member of Onyx Brass and Septura Brass Ensemble and has freelanced […]
A Concerto for pipa and orchestra by French-Canadian composer Christian Thomas, to be premiered next week in Montreal, claims to be the first of its kind in the western world. It has been written for […]
It appears that Jean-Philippe Thiellay, former Deputy Director General of the Paris Opéra, is leaving the Centre National de la Musique next week. Thiellay, its foundign director has been informed that ‘The President of the […]
The public prosecutor in Wiener Neustadt has reportedly charged an actress with assault for allegedly biting a colleague’s hindquarters on several nights in a stage production of ‘Alma’ in Semmering. The production appears to have […]
