A Slippedisc subscriber has written to Pope Leo, proposing the beatification of the Austrian composer. Why not? Bruckner was Catholic,lived a blameless life and wrote screeds of sonorous solemnities for the mother Church. Drop a […]
The Vienna State Opera’s performance of Jacques Bizet’s Carmen was stopped on Tuesday after health and safety officials became concerned at the sight of smoke rising on stage. An opera official later confirmed that there […]
Not sure anyone could make this up. This is from the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. What is does ought to be clear from the title. What they are hiring is off another planet. Welcome […]
The 17th Van Cliburn Competition formed a media partnership with Gramophone magazine. All fine and dandy. But Gramphone’s reviews of the competition have been done from home. Critic Jed Distler clarifies: Before discussing Friday’s performances, […]
The Basel Sinfonietta, a full-strength symphony orchestra devoted to contemporary music, has named the British violinist Fiona Stevens as its executive director. Fiona, who’s from Southampton, is presently managing director of the baroque orchestra Concerto […]
A pair of folksingers has called for a boycott of Kings Place. The post Artists blank London venue over arms links appeared first on Slippedisc.
Chetham’s School of Music and the Royal Northern College of Music have launched a ‘new Orchestral Pathway for talented young musicians from China’, aged 10 to 17. Basically, it seems that if they study at […]
We have been notified of the passing of Joan Lippincott, one of the foremost organ teachers of the past half century. An international soloist with two-dozen recordings to her name, Lippincott was Head of the […]
The death of the German composer Wolfgang Rihm has left a vacancy at the festival’s next-gen orchestra. Rihm’s successor, announced today, is to be the German composer and clarinettist Jörg Widmann. The post New wind […]
Three unexploded World War Two bombs have caused the cancellation of tonight’s WDR Symphony concert in Cologne. The whole town centre has been shut off since eight this morning, with some 200,000 residents evacuated. It […]
