Composer Profile: Camille Saint-Saëns
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) – Composer of the Beloved Carnival of the Animals and Much More Edited by Barry Lenson from Content Generated by the Claude AI app When music lovers hear the name of the […]
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Just in: US dance festival shuts down after fatal accident
America’s oldest dance festival has just been called off after a staffer was killed last week while moving stage gear. The victim was named as production manager Kat Sirico. Among the events cancelled are performances […]
Martha Argerich is out for rest of August
The fabled pianist, 84, has pulled out of the Lucerne Festival on August 28 and the Enescu Festival in Romania three days later. She will be replaced in both events by the Korean, Seong-Jin Cho. Martha’s […]
Watch composer Olivier Messiaen make his favoirute bird noises
A vivid snatch of a French composer imagining he’s a chaffinch. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Plus94 Records (@plus94_records) The post Watch composer Olivier Messiaen make his favoirute bird […]
Star UK tenor creates a scholarship scheme
Nicky Spence, my guest on the Lebrecht Interview last weekend, has launched a scheme to benefit students from deprived backgrounds similar to his own. Message from the Guildhall: We’re delighted to announce the Nicky Spence […]
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In search of Louis Spohr: WDR Chamber Players record six discs of Spohr’s string chamber music for Pentatone
Carl Heinrich Arnold (1793-1874) – String quartet in the Spohr house, c. 1840 CC BY-NC-SA © Internationale Louis Spohr Gesellschaft e.V., Spohr Museum Kassel Two years older than Weber, as a violin virtuoso hailed as a […]
Conductor quits Chicago
Chicago’s former Opera Theater music director Lidiya Yankovskaya is fed up with the US and moving her family to London. She says: “I want to be sure that my children can grow up feeling like […]
How Covent Garden sabotaged opera’s peace lobby
On today’s Telegraph op-ed page I write about the harm inflicted by Covent Garden’s CEO Alex Beard on those seeking to end the war in Gaza. Among other things, I argue: …Beard’s sanction on Israeli […]
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BBC Proms – Classics, bon-bons and an engagingly fresh account of an enduring masterpiece, Nil Venditti conducts BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Great British Classics – BBC Singers, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Nil Venditti – BBC Proms 2025 (Photo: BBC / Chris Christodoulou) Great British Classics: Walton, Vaughan Williams, Coleridge-Taylor, Britten, William Mathias, John Rutter, Avril […]
Breaking: Arts Council England shuts down
Message received: Dear (name withheld) We’re writing to provide you with an update about our online grant management and application portal, Grantium. We continue to face technical challenges with the system. While we can make […]
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