Gustav is not Gustavo: LA Phil goes off the scale
Here’s the orchestra’s publicity for its next concerts. Your thoughts? The post Gustav is not Gustavo: LA Phil goes off the scale appeared first on Slippedisc.
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Breaking: Spanish orchestra sacks US conductor
The Euskadiko Orkestra in the Basque region of Spain today abruptly terminated the contracts of chief conductor Robert Trevino and general director Oriol Roch. Trevino, who had been in the post for eight years, had […]
Clara Schumann (1819-1896): A Composer of the Highest Level
By Barry Lenson Clara Schumann, as you almost certainly know, was the wife of the composer Robert Schumann, who lived from 1810 until 1856. You probably also know that Clara was one of the finest […]
Composer Profile . . . Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel (1805-1847): Felix Mendelssohn’s Sister and Much, Much More
By Barry Lenson We recently profiled Clara Schumann, a supremely gifted composer who was married to Robert Schumann. Today, we would like to turn our attention to Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel, another astonishingly talented woman composer […]
Death of a Nessun Dorma tenor, 59
Friends are reporting the death from a heart attack of Paul Charles Clarke, an international English tenor. Hailing from Liverpool, he won the Kathleen Ferrier prize and went on to sing abroad at Dallas Opera, […]
Death of a leading Japanese conductor
We have been notified of the death of the international Japanese conductor Kazuyoshi Akiyama, at the age of 84. Music director of the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra for four decades, 1964 to 2004, he was transformational […]
Yuja Wang breaks into dance
She appeared this weekend with the New York Philharmonic and New York City Ballet’s principal ballerina Tiler Peck. They performed a twirl together. Beat that. The post Yuja Wang breaks into dance appeared first on […]
Friedrich Gulda: 25 years gone
The inimitable Austrian pianist Friedrich Gulda died on January 27, 2000 in the village of Steinbach am Attersee, where Mahler composed his second and third symphonies. Gulda’s compositions were mostly jazz. His stage personality was […]
Lang Lang claims 16 million followers
The pianist has told a Chinese interview that he is big on Weibo, state-monitored social social media. He has to feed the beast: ‘I’m also creating my own vlogs now. I document every place I […]
Stability for French conductor
The talented Ariane Matiakh, who lasted less than half a season in her first job at Halle, has renewed for a second three-year term at the Württembergischen Philharmonie Reutlingen. Good for her, good for them. […]
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