Edited by Barry Lenson from Content Generated by the Claude AI App Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky was a revolutionary Russian composer who played a crucial role in creating a distinctly national musical style during the 19th […]
Keri-Lynn Wilson, who conducts the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra on Arte tonight, talks to Backstage Classical about her mission: ‘We are fighting for Ukraine on the cultural front. I consider my baton my weapon, and that […]
It is reported that the International Pride Orchestra of San Francisco has received a cancellation note from the Kennedy Center. They were to have performed on June 4 in the Center’s World Pride festival. The […]
The death has been communicated of Ferenc Rados, Hungarian pianist and professor at the Liszt Academy. Zoltan Kocsis once called him ‘the most enigmatic individual of Hungarian music life’ adding: ‘How is it possible that […]
Richard Williams was at her London debut in 1972: I sat with my friend Charlie Gillett and we were both overjoyed to discover that her band included Richard Tee on keyboards, the guitarist Eric Gale […]
It will need more than a European peacekeeping force to resolve the futures of artists who have been banned from the world stage over their support for Vladimir Putin’s war of aggression. They fall into […]
For the past two weeks, staff pianists at the national conservatoires of Paris (pic) and Lyon have been on strike. They are demanding the removal of a 1,650-Euro cap on their monthly wages. Other professors […]
The world of period instruments is in grief at the death of Ricardo Kanji, an outstanding recorder and flute player who also conducted. He was a member of the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century and […]
The US conductor has shared this sobering news of a health reverse and a career decision: Dear Friends, Three years ago I wrote to tell you that I’m battling Glioblastoma. The three and a half […]
Ther epochal singer and classical pianist Robert Flack died yesterday at the age of 88. She gave up singing two years ago with the onset of Lou Gehrig’s Disease. She won a Grammy Record of […]
