Edinburgh hits high sales
The Edinburgh International Festival has just ended with its best box-office in a decade. The final tally was 88 percent ticket sales to 111,000 spectators from 91 countries. The Fringe did less well, albeit on […]
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Just in: Teddy stays at Louis
The US conductor Teddy Abrams has signed on for three more years as music director of the Louisville Orchestra. Abrams, 38, has been there since 2013. The post Just in: Teddy stays at […]
Kennedy Center fires dance team
In ongoing turmoil at the Washington DC performing arts center, director of dance programming Jane Raleigh and two of her staff were fired just before the weekend. According to the NY Times, they had been […]
How much does Asia now drive classical streaming?
The Apple top ten, licensed exclusively to slippedisc.com, has remained static through the summer. In the top spot is Max Richter ‘s sleeptime-time. Second is an altogether unheralded recording of Mozart concertos by Chloe Chua […]
Exclusive: Curtis in uproar over staff sackings
Students at the Curtis Institute have sent us a protest they have circulated over staff changes at the elite music college. More that 150 students have backed the petition. You read it here first: Following […]
Valery Gergiev sets up yet another outpost
The acting Head of the Komi Republic Rostislav Goldstein has opened negotiations with the artistic and general director of the Mariinsky Theater Valery Gergiev on opening a branch of the Mariinsky Theater in Komi, a […]
Yannick lays down New Year’s credentials
Austrian media are swooning over a morning Wagner concert in Salzburg by the Vienna Philharmonic, conducted by the Met’s Yannick Nézet-Séguin. ‘This is the real Viennese Wagner,’ they sigh. Yannick is due to conduct the […]
Dear Alma, When can I get my stand back?
Dear Alma, I was wondering why there is this fad where musicians play orchestral music by heart. It brings nothing to the music! The musicians don’t get paid a soloist’s or a chamber music fee […]
Orch moves: Scots timp heads to Ottawa
Paul Philbert, principal timpanist of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra,has been appointed to the same position in the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa, Canada. He will take up the position next month, commuting between […]
The naked string quartet: a history
We have been chatting to Shasta Ellenbogen, a Canadian violist who founded a naked string quartet in Berlin, intermittently the talk of the town. They are serious musicians whose next dates are 23 and 30 […]
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