Holy Cow – Rijksmuseum Click here to watch Here’s a charming and quirky little video about a little-known aspect of the artworks in this great museum in Amsterdam – its cows. Friso Lammertse, Curator of […]
The orchestra management has now modified its stance on phone use to this: ‘We are very happy for you to take photographs and short video clips at our concerts. … We suggest that you take […]
The rising Finn, Tarmo Peltokowski, has been sharing pictures of himself as a kid in an interview with Deutsche Welle. His candour is unusual. Watch: The post Tarmo: How I look so young appeared […]
San Francisco Opera livestreams Click here for tickets The San Francisco Opera is livestreaming one performance of each of its operas during its Summer Season starting with Innocence, an opera by Finnish composer Kaija Saaariaho. It takes […]
We’re sitting here enraptured by music of the Bulgarian-British composer Dobrinka Tabakova, championed by the Halle orchestra. Tabakova, 44, pursues her own pathways in tonal harmony, impervious to fashions and musical politics. Listen. The post […]
New Zealand Opera’s general director, Brad Cohen, has devised a way to send simultaneous texts to braille-reading machines for audience members who have trouble reading the surtitles above the stage. A small step, but life […]
Some curious expressions in a newly uploaded Bartok concertto featuring the winner of the German National award. The post Bartok gets the Levit treatment appeared first on Slippedisc.
Hilary Hahn is unwell: ‘I’m saddened to report that I’m not yet well enough to travel, so my recital in Chicago is postponed until further notice.’ She is due in Brazil at the end of […]
Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder promised today in Cabinet that ‘the goal (of a new hall) will be successful by 2036.’ Cost projections, he said, have been halved – from one billion Euros to just […]
The suspended Bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney, Anne Dyer, is facing a Clergy Disciplinary Tribunal in Edinburgh for behaviour unbecoming of a cleric and likely to bring the church into disrepute. Among the allegations to […]
