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Johnnie Walker quits Ed Fest

Johnnie Walker quits Ed Fest

The blended Scotch whisky brand has neded six years of lead sponsorship for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. They have no replacement. The city is proposing to impose an overnight tax on visitors from next year […]

Leslie Garrett to make Sondheim debut

Leslie Garrett to make Sondheim debut

The former shining light of the former English National Opera is to appear with Northern Ireland Opera in Stephen Sondheim’s Follies. Leslie gushes: ‘I’m so excited to be coming back to Belfast and especially to […]

Saint Anton Bruckner, if you please

Saint Anton Bruckner, if you please

A Slippedisc subscriber has written to Pope Leo, proposing the beatification of the Austrian composer. Why not? Bruckner was Catholic,lived a blameless life and wrote screeds of sonorous solemnities for the mother Church. Drop a […]

Poor Van Cliburn is reviewed by Zoom

Poor Van Cliburn is reviewed by Zoom

The 17th Van Cliburn Competition formed a media partnership with Gramophone magazine. All fine and dandy. But Gramphone’s reviews of the competition have been done from home. Critic Jed Distler clarifies: Before discussing Friday’s performances, […]

Basel hires Brit boss

Basel hires Brit boss

The Basel Sinfonietta, a full-strength symphony orchestra devoted to contemporary music, has named the British violinist Fiona Stevens as its executive director. Fiona, who’s from Southampton, is presently managing director of the baroque orchestra Concerto […]