As long as I live – Cabaret Convention I didn’t get to the Mabel Mercer Foundation’s annual Cabaret Convention in New York this year because of a scheduling conflict but I was there in spirit […]
press release: CHICAGO – Riccardo Muti leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) on a six-city, eight-concert U.S. tour (January 14–24, 2025) that marks their first domestic tour together since January 2023. Muti, the Orchestra’s distinguished 10th […]
A seriously destabilised Winchester Cathedral, undergoing a thorough bishop’s investigation over bullying allegations, has extended its interim director of music by one year. It says this will ‘allow the Cathedral time to develop its aspirations’. […]
The following notice has gone up in Symphony Hall, Birmingham, ending a year of unnecessary chaos. The boss was wrong. Will she admit it? The post End of: CBSO bans happy snappers appeared first […]
The headline is taken from a New Yorker opinion by Alex Ross on the composer’s 150th birth anniversary. We beg to disagree. Ives has fallen out of favour in the 21st century, and justly so. […]
From a Guardian article, based on a BBC Radio 3 essay: In 1993, completely out of the blue, the Austrian pianist Paul Badura-Skoda (pic) was sent a photocopy of a manuscript purporting to be […]
From SWR: The planned renovation of the Stuttgart Opera House could cost between 1.5 and 2 billion euros – this is what research by the SWR has shown. Up until now, the public has always […]
Message from the Kansas diva: Last night: I kept vigil through the whole night and early morning. Then my eyes closed – numb – of their own volition. I woke a few minutes/lifetimes later bathed […]
It is the centenary of Busoni’s death (1866-1924), and recordings, if not quite as omnipresent as some would like, are certainly increasing. On Classical Explorer, we’ve previously looked at Busoni’s Violin Concerto on Chandos with […]
I passed on the Calidore String Quartet’s previous Beethoven set of the late quartets, issued in early 2023. Based solely on the sound samples I listened to online, I thought they sometimes sounded a bit […]
