A great director has directed a great actor in a play about a great composer and a king known as ‘The Great’. Should be great, right? Not so fast. The Score is an entertaining drama with […]
The Ukrainian violinist Alexandre Zapolski, concertmaster of the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, has died of cancer at the age of 74. Originally from Ukraine, he migrated to Copenhagen in 1992 and became a powerhouse in […]
The Scottish violinist and Edinburgh Festival director is in chatty mood when David Krauss, principal trumpet of the Metropolitan Opera, sits her down for a one-to-one. They are connected by a mutual friendship with Wynton […]
In a gossipy interview with Chinese media Yuja goes on to say, ‘have you seen Kissin talk?’ View this post on Instagram A post shared by Andrew Loh (@andrew.the.piano.junkie) The post Yuja Wang: Martha Argerich […]
From the San Francisco Chronicle: The San Francisco Symphony and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music have “paused” the Emerging Black Composers Project, citing a memo from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights that […]
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: I love artists who attempt the impossible. Within reason, that is. I’d draw the line at someone playing the 32 Beethoven sonatas one-handed, or the 15 Shostakovich quartets […]
The President has messaged: ‘I am thrilled to announce that Laura Ingraham and Maria Bartiromo will be joining our Kennedy Center Board – This completes our selection. We look forward to restoring the Center to […]
Silent film Star Harold Lloyd died 54 years ago on 8th March 1971 at the age of 77. Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton may be more famous today, but in the 1920s Harold Lloyd was […]
Wonderful to see what gets onto French public television. The post Play Dixit for me appeared first on Slippedisc.
From our agony aunt: Dear Alma, I like a violist in my youth orchestra and I’m pretty sure they like me too. But the problem is that we’re both your stereotypical socially shy/awkward violist! Do […]
