PLAY is a low-cost Icelandic airline flying between Europe and North America. Without instruments, apparently. The violinist Pétur Björnsson had this experience: I just had access to PLAY flight to Berlin with a violin on […]
Following an inspiring weekend at the Southbank Centre for the Benedetti Foundation’s London Sessions, the mass orchestra (featuring over 200 young musicians) performed a new arrangement by Paul Campbell of Shostakovich’s Jazz Suite No.1, including […]
The Italian-US tenor Lando Bartolini, who died today, had a rags trade to riches story. Unhappy working in his family’s textile factory in Prato, he moved to Philadelphia in 1966 and started taking voice lessons […]