From Bruce Duffie’s 1990 interview in Chicago with the Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin, who died this week: RS: I must tell you little story. I know Shostakovich personally, himself, because my father a few years […]
Responding to disquiet at the seizure of a professional violinist, the Department of Homeland Security has posted this message on its X account: This “Utah violinist” is Donggin Shin, a CRIMINAL illegal alien from South […]
Recorded at the University of Surrey, this is a rather nice introduction to the music of Charles Shadle, who currently teaches at MIT; his own teachers include Harold Shapio. The first three pieces on this […]
Virtual Stage Lab Click here to watch This is a play from the Virtual Stage Lab, an ensemble comedy with songs, about One Family. One Jewish Holiday. One Civil Rights Icon. And How They Are […]
The trumpet star has announced that next month’s Last Night of the Proms will be her farewell performance. Balsom, who is 46, has enjoyed a solo career for 24 years. The last piece she plays […]
A group calling itself ‘Jewish Artists for Palestine’ caused a ten-minute break in last night’s Melbourne Symphony concert at the BBC Proms. The group issued a claim to the effect that they had targeted the […]
The city of Kiel has announced that its music director, Gabriel Feltz, died unexpectedly on Friday at Essen University Hospital. Feltz, who was also music director of the Belgrade Philharmonic, was 55. No cause of […]
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: Sitting in the dental hygienist’s chair, my ears slathered with Classic FM, I cried out for something like this richly varied album where one composer was born in […]
Mozart: Don Giovanni – Ensemble OrQuesta at Grimeborn Festival, Arcola Theatre (Photo: Julian Guidera) Mozart: Don Giovanni; Marcio da Silva, Flavio Lauria, Helen May, Rosemary Carlton-Willis, Anna-Luise Wagner, John Twitchen, director: Marcio da Silva, Hastings […]
Editorial Tolerance is possibly our Salvation “ “Marks & Spencer’s has apologised to a mother for causing her teenage daughter “distress” after she was asked if she needed help by a transgender employee in its […]
.jpg?w=160&resize=160,160&ssl=1 "Warm hearted & with a twinkle in his eye: The Brook Street Band bring out the sense of enjoyment in the violin sonatas of Ipswich-based Joseph Gibbs")
