Florence Price 1887-1953) and Leo Sowerby (1895-1968) were contemporaries in 1930s and 1940s Chicago. This is major release in the continued appreciation of their music. Both composers deserve as much airtime as possible. As to […]
The Royal College of Music this morning named Gary Ryan as Head of Strings. He has been acting head of department since Mark Messenger was suspended seven months ago. Messenger left the RCM after an […]
Sothebys are selling a trove of 1,500 love letters between the Vienna-born Oxford composer and musicologist Egon Wellesz (1885–1974) and the poet Elizabeth Mackenzie (1921–2021), Vice-Principal of Lady Margaret Hall. Wellesz lived in ‘a very […]