Wayne Thiebaud While famous for his paintings of American confections, Wayne Thiebaud’s passionate engagement with art history remains largely overlooked. In this documentary, produced by the Fine Art Museums of San Francisco to support their […]
From a review of the tenor’s recital at the Luxembourg Philharmonie: “Tränenahnung” (premonition of tears) sets in. The audience has noticeably stopped breathing to follow the increasingly powerful piano playing of the tenor and his […]
Pope Leo is reputed to be a keen music lover with an eye for talent. Today he has roped in six of the finest finger flyers for his Friday noon recital. The six are Gabriela […]
Opera Rara’s Donizetti Song Project is the latest in their alchemical mix of musicology and performance. But why say with Volume Four first? Because recently we heard Bellini’s La straniella (see this post), and Donizetti […]
I feel sorry for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. They got themselves a new hot-stuff conductor in 2020, and now a recording arrangement with Pentatone (although that’s not as prestigious as it once was), and this […]
A report for slippedisc.com by Susan Hall: Yuval Sharon and the American Modern Opera Company (AMOC) represent the future of opera. Their opening-night production signals a bold new direction for a grand institution long in […]
One of the last students of Alexander Goldenweiser, the Moscow pianist Nelly Akopian Tamarina died today at the age of 84. Banned for a while by the Soviets, she taught in London at the Royal […]
The conductor has written a fond tribute to his longtime friend and mentor. Hard even to know where to start with Alfred: for any musician of my generation he was simply always there, the very […]
The Liceu Conservatory of Barcelona has suspended a classical guitar teacher following a complaint by a student over alleged sexual assaults. An 18-year-old student accused the teacher of “touching her intimate parts,” according to El […]
Who was the man who invented Peter Pan? What kind of person invents a child hero determined never to grow up? Or a pirate with hook for a hand? Or a whole troup of Lost […]
