Message from the conductor Hilary Davan Wetton: Browsing gently – as one does – through the Church Times’ “Organists required” Column, I come upon an advertisement from St Pancras Parish Church in the Euston […]
The president of the National Audiovisual Institute (INA), which looks after radio and TV sound archives, was has been suspended from his duties today by Culture Minister Rachida Dati. Laurent Vallet, 55, had admitted to […]
Charlie Parker called her ‘the lady with the million dollar ears’. Sheila Jordan, who was white, married a member of Parker’s quintet and became a familiar figure on stage in New York’s golden years of […]
New York’s arts centre has just rolled out a totally woke new season: Composer Jeanine Tesori is honored as the season’s Lincoln Center Visionary Artist, with stagings of her powerful opera Blue and her musical […]
The Ukrainian-born banker-turned-artist agent Lena Khandros has died unexpectedly in the US after keeping quiet for some time about a serious illness. Having been a v-p on Wall Street and in Singapore, Lena founded Momentum […]
Message from Patrick Togher: My beautiful little Princess has left me to join her beloved Mom in Heaven. Just as she was beginning her new life in Canadian journalism, a massive seizure has taken her […]
A career-long executive at the home of Italian opera, Maria Di Freda has died of an incurable illness. Maria joined La Scala in 1973 and was promoted to personnel director in 1991. Suriving the tubulent […]
The death has been published of Celso Garrido-Lecca, a prominent figure in choral music across the sub-continent. He was best known as a close associate of the songwriter Victor Jara in Chile up to 1973. […]
Message received: Across the last weekend in August, composer Matthew Lee Knowles and organist Katia Farn will present “For Samuel Beckett”, the longest fully notated composition ever written for the organ – this will be […]
Andrew Shulman has been having hell on Frontier: Safely aboard my Delta flight from Raleigh to LAX with my cello after having been refused boarding by Frontier, despite having bought 2 (yes, TWO) extra seats […]
