In the darkened backroom of the BBC’s northern orchestra, brows are furrowed over the identity of a new supporter. The orchestra has been paying an agency to boost social media engagement. Its Facebook followers have […]
Our critic has seen Ashton in Florida, Balanchine in London: by Alasrair Macaulay Some fluke of birth and talent arranged it so that the composers Handel and Bach were born in the same year, 1685, […]
His Majesty was guest of the London Vegetable Orchestra. Watch here. Or here. Maybe he’ll ivnited Donald Trump to play the turnip. The post Watch: King Charles plays musical carrot appeared first on Slippedisc.
We understand that the Department for Giovernment Efficiency has terminated all four of the American Musicological Society’s NEH grants. The Societys executive director writes: ‘As the chief operating officer for the American Musicological Society, a […]
Not many people noticed but at 6pm last night Radio Lichtenstein went dead. The secretive tax haven, which has many more bank accounts than its 39,000 citizens, put the future of the radio station to […]
The German baritone (pictured) will direct Salome next season in Toulouse, with Michael Fabiano and Adriana Gonzalez in the leading roles. Goerne is one of the most thoughtful artists on the present-day recital circuit. Also […]
The Rachmaninoff Conservatory of Paris, founded in 1923 by the exiled Fyodor Chaliapin and Alexander Glazunov, has inaugurated a statue of its namesake. The sculptor is Besik Solomonashvili and the image looks more like FDR […]
In March 1770, the 14-year-old Mozart presented three magnificent arias at a soirée of Count Firmian’s in Milan: this led to his first commission, for an opera seria for one of Italy’s three principal theatres. The resulting […]
The US conductor Karina Canellakis has recommitted to Dutch Radio: I am very happy to announce that I will stay Chief Conductor of the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest through to 2031. I am proud of how […]
The German label Dabringhaus und Grimm has ordered an enoromous skip in which it will crunch up 20,000 unsold classical CDs, rather than paying a five-figure royalty demand from the collection agency Gema. Full story […]
