From the LA Phil: The LA Phil today announced a major addition to its 2025/26 season at Walt Disney Concert Hall: Academy Award-winning actress Cate Blanchett will appear as narrator in four performances of Beethoven’s Egmont in February 2026 […]
The former music director of Trinity Church Wall Street, Julian Wachner, is being held in jail in Indianapolis on preliminary charges related to child exploitation and child pornography, Fox59 reports. The description of the charge, […]
We’ve had this alarm call at slippedisc from musicians of the Hong Kong Philharmonic: Tomorrow or over the weekend, the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra will announce Bernhard Fleischer as Chief Executive and Patrick Ren as […]
A critic at the Rossini Festival in Pesaro informs us that an enormous Palestine flag was unfurled across the entire stage on the closing night of Cambiale de Matrimonio. Our observer says: ‘After the enthusiastic […]
The US violinist Hilary Hahn has pulled out of the BBC Proms next week with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, due to an ongoing injury’. She was due to play the Dvorak concerto. Isabelle Faust jumps […]
Cagney and Lacey This is such an enjoyable duet – the two stars of Cagney and Lacey having fun with a song from the wonderful musical, City of Angels, for charity, at the STAGE gala in 1999. City of […]
The University of North Texas has been embroiled of late in accusations of antisemitism and censorship. Now it’s trying to be oh-so-nice to everyone. Here’s how it announces an appointment: MUSIC THEORY PROFESSOR TO SIT […]
A fund-raiser has been created on behalf of John Shin, a US-educated violinist who plays with the Utah Symphony, Ballet West and other ensembles. He has been seized by immigration police, leaving his family frightened […]
Musica Aeterna has announced the detah of its concertmaster, Inna Prokopyeva-Rice. She will be laid to rest on Friday in St Petersburg. The group, formed by Teodor Currentzis with Russian state funding, posted this message: […]
The Beethoven Orchestra Bonn has extended its general music director Dirk Kaftan to 2032, by which time he will have put in 15 years. That will see them covered for the Beethoven bicentenary in 2027. […]
