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Newly up on Youtube: Martha Argerich and friends. The post A moment of cool contemplation appeared first on Slippedisc.

The Greek musicologist and senior music critic George Leotsakos died this week, aged 89. Born in Athens, on the 9th of August 1935, he studied with composers Kostas Kydoniatis and Yannis Andreou Papaïoannou, graduating from […]

The UK-Australian pianist who was cancelled by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra after making unacceptable remarks on the Gaza situation has issued this clarification through his PR agency: For clariy (sic), we are releasing the comments […]

You can now get excluded for carrying a flag related to ‘politics, hatred and advertising’. Seems to cover pretty much everything.   The post BBC Proms tightens Last Night flags restriction appeared first on Slippedisc.

The Iran-born soprano and teacher Haleh Abghari, renowned for New York performances of Peter Maxwell Davies’s Eight Songs for a Mad King’, has been found stabbed to death in her Colorado Springs apartment. Police are […]

The Colburn School in Los Angeles, host to Esa-Pekka Salonen’s conducting Fellowship, has received a huge $16.6 million donation from an Illinois-based foundation. Salonen said: ‘I am deeply grateful to The Negaunee Foundation for supporting […]

The soprano Elsa Charleston, renowned for her commitment to new works, has died in her hometown. After a career in chamber music as a mezzo, Elsa hit the high register as she hit 40, touring […]

The Italian soprano Celestina Casapietra died this week in her homeland. After early successes in Milan she married the DDR conductor Herbert Kegel and became half of the regime’s operatic glamour couple. In Berlin, she […]

Two dozen of the world’s leaing musicians have published a letter of admiration for the pianist Pavel Kushnir, who was arrested for posting an anti-Putin video and was allowed to die of hunger in jail. […]

In a year of generational transition with Jasper Parrott stepping back at HP and Barrett Wisman fading out at IMG,one of Germany’s older family firms is also moving on. Cornelia Schmid is giving up executive […]