On this, the 50th anniversary of the premiere of Chicago, Bob Fosse and Kander & Ebb’s great musical about corruption and celebrity, set in the bad old, good old, days of Chicago’s underworld, here’s a […]
Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim has written an eye-opening feature in the NY Times on the growing recognition for musicians who play for patients in hospital, and the development of professional standards. …on a brisk January morning […]
Dr Aaron McGregor (Photo: Campbell Parker) Advertisements for Handel’s performances in Dublin in 1741 and 1742 (when he premiered Messiah) give the name of his organist as “Mr M’Lean” or “Mr Maclaine” and that is all […]