The BBC today appointed the German musician Anja Bihlmaier as principal guest conductor of the BBC Philharmonic. Bihlmaier, 45, has just left the Residentie Orchestra in The Hague after one three-year term as chief conductor. […]
The widely acclaimed ‘father of British blues’ has died aged 90 in California, where he moved in the 1970s. His Bluesbreakers group is remembered chiefly for the couple of years in the mid-1960s when Eric […]
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 […]