Barbara Cook Someone who was definitely flesh and blood was the great Barbara Cook. Her creamy effortless lyric soprano led the original casts of many musicals of the 1950s and, when she was no longer […]
We’re rather exicted to learn of a cycle of Mahler shymphonies being performed in Norwich, an English cathedral town of 144,000 souls. They reach the fourth symphony at the King’s Centre next Saturday. The initiator […]
Isabelle Faust plays a wonderfully introspective ac count of the Beethoven violin concerto with, near the end of the first movement, a solo cadenza that may have been written by Beethoven. Except it’s not etnirely […]
Obituary by Alastair Macaulay: The enchanting, generous, warm, and devout Marianne Preger Simon (1929-2024) has died. She danced for and with Merce Cunningham well before there was any Cunningham Dance Company. In 1949, finding that […]
The Zagreb Soloists have announced the death of their long serving concertmaster, Tonko Ninić. The post Concertmaster, 91 appeared first on Slippedisc.
From the China Daily: When 83-year-old conductor Riccardo Muti reflects on his musical training, he is proud of his teachers, especially Antonino Votto (1896-1985), the Italian conductor who was Arturo Toscanini’s assistant at Milan’s Teatro […]
From our agony aunt’s mailbag: Dear Alma, My string quartet is not in a good place. The founding violinist is fairly distant with the rest of us, who came in to replace her original partners […]
We have been notified of the death, aged 90, of the distinguished composer Siegfried Thiele, a man who maintained a successful career under both Communism and capitalism. Born in Chemnitz, he initially combined composing for […]
Musicians in the Munich Symphony Orchestra, ranking fourth in the city’s hierarchy, have discovered that they are paid 800 Euros a month less than the lowest paid in the other orchestra. They have published an […]
Berlin’s Konzarthaus has called off its Projections festival in February due to the effects of budget cuts amounting to 1.8 million Euros. The Konzerthaus said: ‘This cancellation makes the far-reaching effects of the current cuts […]
