During Covid, a group of synagogue cantors segued the Leonard Cohen song back into its New Year original.
The soloist Julia Danielle Smulson is a real jazz talent, winner of an Ella Fitzgerald award.
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All across the UK, essential arts are being eliminated by auto-bureaucrats and politico-philisitines. The National Youth Choir of Northern Ireland has uplifted the province since just before the turn of the century. No more. The […]
A timely post, after the weekend’s Southbank performance of Wozzeck. Sir Adrian Boult conducing Wozzeck might certainly cause a double-take. What we have here is the second ever performance of Berg’s Wozzeck in the UK […]
The Bolshoi has announced the death of Rodion Shchedrin, Russia’s most successful composer of the late and post-Communist eras. Although open to modernist ideas in his composition and teaching, and refusing to join the Communist […]
