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America’s mezzo diva has come out for the Veep. ‘If Trump is elected,’ she says, ‘we will no longer recognise our country’.   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Joyce DiDonato […]

We  regret to report the death of the Goucestersshire-born violinist and composer Ben Powell, a rising force in Los Angeles film-scoring scene. Ben died of cancer, a day after his 38th birthday. He led Hans […]

A new front has been opened in the diversity wars by Kristina Kolbe, assistant professor in Sociology of Arts and Culture at Erasmus University Rotterdam and a visiting fellow at LSE’s International Inequalities Institute. In […]

We’ve just seen a report from Donaueschingen, the world’s oldest new music festival (if that’s not a contradiction in terms), dating back to 1921. The festival has been fading for decades. This year’s title was […]

The Baltimore Sun today scrapped its features department, reassigning its remaining writers to the news department. This leaves the 30th-ranked US city without any reporting on its busy music scene, museums, galleries and performing arts […]

Three seconds in, a Trump campaign video (here) uses a flash shot of the Dutch violinist and a teenaged singer in its opening sequence. The clip, taken without permission, has been circulated by Twitter owner […]

Let’s see it try the Elgar concerto. Watch here. The post Watch: Robot plays cello solo with orchestra appeared first on Slippedisc.

Further to our report yesterday, the New York Philharmonic has ended its interest in Marie-Hélène Bernard of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra as its next president. The search continues. The post NY Phil abandons St […]

The Royal Opera has notified Friends that they will not be allowed to attend the general rehearsal of Die Walküre on April 25. Aggrieved Friends asked us why. Here’s the official reply:  The Friends haven’t been […]

Funeral arrangements have been announced for the late Finnish conductor Leif Segerstam. The service will be held in Helsinki on November 8 at the Meilahti church. Later that day, Finnish National Opera will stage a […]