The Observer/Guardian outdoes itself today with an editorial that gives itself a hernia in its efforts not to offend. Here’s all you need to read: … The classical music sector feels particularly aggrieved, rallying behind […]
Euan Kemp from East Dunbartonshire has been named Scottish Young Musicians Solo Performer of the Year. Euan has been playing saxophone since he was 11 years old. His winning pieces were Improvisation No.1 by Ryo […]
It’s the first trio, with Mischa Maisky and Janine Jensen. Unarguable. The post New online: Martha plays Mendelssohn appeared first on Slippedisc.
Under the headline’World-class soprano denied right to settle in the UK’ the Telegraph takes up the case of Erika Baikoff, 25, a Russian-born American artist. Selected for the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, […]
Faculty at Ruce University’s Shepherd School of Music have been informed by the Dean that horn professor Biill VerMeulen has been retired, ‘effective immediately’. In a message to media the school says: ‘Rice is aware […]
We have been notified of the death, on April 29 in Jerusalem, of the composer Paul Schoenefeld, who melded traditional Ashkenazi-Jewish music with western orchestral settings. Paul was 77. Before migrating to Israel, he was […]
From our agony aunt’s mailbag: Dear Alma, WTF? Making news in just the last week. Enough is enough. We have been patient, working hard against a wall of male privilege, getting passed over for jobs, […]
The Académie des Beaux-Arts has announced the death of Hugues Gall, director of the Grand Théâtre de Genève for 15 years and then of the Opéra de Paris until 2004. Hugues, who was 84, was […]
Rising concern about Arts Cancel England (ACE) has prompted librarians at the House of Lords to prepare a really useful couple of charts on how opera has been centrally funded over the past eight years. […]
The composer Richard M Sherman, who co-wrote wrote songs for Mary Poppins, The Jungle Book and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang has died in Beverly Hills, aged 95. All his songs were written with his brother […]
