From the Lebrecht Album of the Week:
He was a master manipulator of media. One night in Liverpool, he invited leading journalists to a champagne reception at the Adelphi, where he proceeded to unscrew light-bulbs and drop them one by one into the hotel lobby from the top floor. The headlines all but wrote themselves….
Read on here.
En francais ici.
The post The maestro who smashed up lightbulbs appeared first on Slippedisc.
The capture of Yale University by woke jargon is exemplified in its latest weild appointment. This comes fro, would you believe, the Yale Institute of Sacred Music: New ISM long-term fellow, Katie Anania, is an […]
From our Finland correspondent: Sibelius wrote many songs including ‘Was it a Dream?’ and ‘The girl returned from meeting her lover’ for the soprano Ida Ekman who, on several accounts, he considered as the only […]
Message from the board in response to the musicians’ rebellion against the management over the Israel-Palestine war: MSO Statement, 16 August. The Board of Melbourne Symphony Orchestra will conduct an independent external review into our […]
