The over-booked Finn had a hard time at his Vienna Philharmonic debut this weekend with Mahler’s sixth Symphony. The experienced critic for Der Standard, Stefan Ender, found the performance ‘incredibly loud’, resulting in ‘a levelling […]
Birmingham Royal Ballet has just announced the death of its dedicated chief executive Caroline Miller. It is with great sadness that Birmingham Royal Ballet today announces that CEO Caroline Miller passed away in the early […]
The legendary tabla player, composer, actor and producer Zakir Hussain died today in a US hospital at the age of 73. A government minister declared him ‘irreplaceable’. Zakir Hussain shot to fame in the 1970s, […]
The emeritus music director of the Chicago Symphony seems charmingly vague about his successor in an interview with Dennis Polkow. Or maybe he’s just kidding, with a touch of malice. Excerpt: “I didn’t want to […]
An ecstatic reception of Petrenko’s Mahler Ninth with the Israel Philharmonic has been accompanied by thoughtful reviews. Petrenkko himself wrote in a programme note that he did not accept the collective conducting wisdom that the […]
Peggy Lee Fever, written by Otis Blackwell and Eddie Cooley (collectively known as John Davenport), was originally recorded in 1956 by Little Willie John (who?), Fever has been recorded by countless singers in hundreds of […]
The Vienna State Opera has published a closely-observed article by conductor Jendrik Springer on working with the intense Christian Thielemann. First of all: never call him Maestro. That’s what I advise all singers who are […]
The Bulgarian conductor Delyana Lazarov a, former assistant to Mark Elder in Manchester, has been named principal guest conductor in Utah from mid-2025. She will work with newly appointed music director Markus Poschner. ‘Delyana’s electric […]
On 4 April 2018, the environmental group Milieudefensie (part of Friends of the Earth International) announced their intention to take Shell to court to demand that it bring its business operations in line with the Climate Agreement. Thousands of Dutch […]
The crowd in Seoul are singing: ‘If (president) Yoon Suk Yeol gets lost, it’s a Merry Christmas!’ Quite catchy. The post Koreans sing ‘Impeach him!’ to the tune of Merry Christmas appeared first on Slippedisc.
