A 7th symphony for the ages
A tweeter posted this list of ‘top’ 7th symphonies: 1. Beethoven 2. Bruckner 3. Mahler 4. Dvorak 5. Sibelius 6. Arnold 7. Shostakovich 8. Rubbra 9. Prokofiev 10. Glazunov I’d replace half of them. 1 […]
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A child called Brock who is displaced from her home and wonders if life might be better among the badgers underground: Garsington Opera Youth Company in Hannah Conway’s Uprooted
Rehearsal for Uprooted – Garsington Opera Youth Company On 29 July 2025, Garsington Opera Youth Company joins forces with Sinfonia Smith Square to present Uprooted, a new opera by composer Hannah Conway and librettist Hazel […]
Music and arts to transform people’s lives: Britten Pears Arts presents Summer at Snape 2025
Having emerged from the Aldeburgh Festival [see Tony’s review of the closing concerts], Snape Maltings is gearing up for this year’s Summer at Snape, a month-long celebration of music running from 26 July – 31 August […]
Alaska names a music director
The Juneau Symphony has picked Brad Hogarth from a shortlist of four; he starts in September. Hogarth is associate professor of conducting at San Francisco State University and associate conductor of the Monterey Symphony. He […]
Chicago Symphony mourns a violinist
The death has been made known of Fox Fehling, a CSO violinist from 1979 until her retirement three years ago. Fox was 76. Originally from Iowa, she was the first winner of the Mische Elman […]
Jonas Kaufmann is a grandfather
Slippedisc.com congratulates the German-Austrian tenor and welcomes him to the club of the third generation. Kaufmann’s married daughter Charlotte Kaufmann, 27, has given birth to a baby girl, her first child. Jonas Kaufmann, 55, is […]
An American takes over major German festival
It has been announced overnight that the next director of the Ruhrtriennale is to be Lydia Steier, an opera director who has made her name in Lucerne and Vienna. Steier, 47, is from Connecticut, granddaughter […]
Morceaux en forme de poire: Hommage à Erik Satie from Ensemble Ricercata
Ensemble Ricercata (Ivan Šiller, Tomáš Boroš, piano). Large Concert Studio of Slovak Radio, Bratislava, 14.06.2025 Satie Trois morceaux en forme de poire James Tenney Three Pages in the Shape of a Pear (in celebration of […]
BBC winner gets an agent
HarrisonParrott have signed the Canadian pianist Ryan Wang, a year after he won BBC Young Musician of the Year. Wang is now 18. The photo is from 2013. The post BBC winner gets an agent […]
An Arab-American wins US music director post
The Marin Symphony has named Fawzi Haimor as its incoming music director, starting September. Haimor, 41, was born in Chicago and raised in Saudi Arabia. His father is Jordanian-Lebanese and his mother is from the […]
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