The Divertimento Symphony Orchestra was conducted at the Olympics closing ceremony by its founder Zahia Ziouani.
She’s French-Algerian, born in Paris in 1978, twin sister of the cellist Fettouma Ziouani.
Benjamin Bernheim sang Fauré’s Hymn to Apollo with a flying piano accompanist.
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The New Yorker critic goes to town on a Los Angeles piano recital. … a number of people find themselves distracted. “She’d fit much better in a night club” is one of the politer complaints […]
The Freiburg Chamber Orchestra has replaced its founding conductor Laurent Gendre with Philipp Bach. Gendre has led the orchestra since its inception in 2009. The post Swiss orchestra drops baton appeared first on Slippedisc.
Barbara Hepworth: Sphere with Inner Form, 1963, at the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, the Netherlands 50 years after her death, a new violin concerto will be celebrating the life and legacy of sculptor Barbara Hepworth. Commissioned […]
