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From the wires: FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (WFOR) – A man is dead, and another was detained after his wife said he was shot and killed in a dispute over loud music in Florida on Thanksgiving. […]

From Texas Classical Review: A new American violin concerto was paired with a popular Czech evergreen in the post-Thanksgiving concert of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra led Markus Poschner Friday night. The latter work was For […]

A domestic moment as Roberto Alagna and Aleksandra Kurzak rehearse Fedora in Geneva. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Roberto Alagna (official) (@robertoalagna.tenor) The post Where did you put my hat, dear? […]

The great Cornish baritone died in July this year, aged 87. Friends and colleagues gathered this week at the Wigmore Hall to remember him. Speakers include Dame Janet Baker, Sir Thomas Allen, Sir Bryn Terfel, […]

The legal battle continues between pianist Nomi Abadi and Hollywood composer Danny Elfman over remarks he made about their failed relationship in a Rolling Stone interview. Here’s the background. And here‘s the latest legal state […]

Our attention has been drawn to this incident in Texas, six months ago. It has been mentioned in a discussion on slippedisc.com concerning the dissemination of unchecked abuse allegations against named musicians. In this instance, […]

Barbara Cook Someone who was definitely flesh and blood was the great Barbara Cook.   Her creamy effortless lyric soprano led the original casts of many musicals of the 1950s and, when she was no longer […]

We’re rather exicted to learn of a cycle of Mahler shymphonies being performed in Norwich, an English cathedral town of 144,000 souls. They reach the fourth symphony at the King’s Centre next Saturday. The initiator […]

Isabelle Faust plays a wonderfully introspective ac count of the Beethoven violin concerto with, near the end of the first movement, a solo cadenza that may have been written by Beethoven. Except it’s not etnirely […]

Obituary by Alastair Macaulay: The enchanting, generous, warm, and devout Marianne Preger Simon (1929-2024) has died. She danced for and with Merce Cunningham well before there was any Cunningham Dance Company. In 1949, finding that […]