The president of the National Audiovisual Institute (INA), which looks after radio and TV sound archives, was has been suspended from his duties today by Culture Minister Rachida Dati. Laurent Vallet, 55, had admitted to […]
Charlie Parker called her ‘the lady with the million dollar ears’. Sheila Jordan, who was white, married a member of Parker’s quintet and became a familiar figure on stage in New York’s golden years of […]
New York’s arts centre has just rolled out a totally woke new season: Composer Jeanine Tesori is honored as the season’s Lincoln Center Visionary Artist, with stagings of her powerful opera Blue and her musical […]
The animated feature film Kensuke’s Kingdom had its British network TV premiere earlier this month on Sunday, 3 August on BBC One, which means that it is now available on BBC iPlayer until next year! Adapted […]
The Ukrainian-born banker-turned-artist agent Lena Khandros has died unexpectedly in the US after keeping quiet for some time about a serious illness. Having been a v-p on Wall Street and in Singapore, Lena founded Momentum […]
Message from Patrick Togher: My beautiful little Princess has left me to join her beloved Mom in Heaven. Just as she was beginning her new life in Canadian journalism, a massive seizure has taken her […]
Zoë Beyers leads Britten Sinfonia at Westminster Abbey (Photo: Shoël Stadlen) Britten Sinfonia has announced that violinist Zoë Beyers is to become the orchestra’s new Leader. She will replace Jacqueline Shave and Thomas Gould, who […]
A career-long executive at the home of Italian opera, Maria Di Freda has died of an incurable illness. Maria joined La Scala in 1973 and was promoted to personnel director in 1991. Suriving the tubulent […]
Cyrill Ibrahim From September 2025, pianist Cyrill Ibrahim will be the new artist in residence at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens. A firm believer in bringing classical music into the mainstream, Ibrahim will support World Heart Beat’s […]
The death has been published of Celso Garrido-Lecca, a prominent figure in choral music across the sub-continent. He was best known as a close associate of the songwriter Victor Jara in Chile up to 1973. […]
