The maestro tells Corriere della Serra that we should not confuse pleasure with pain: I am against the proposals of some virologists to use closed…
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Another record year for Slipped Disc as we head for new heights
Slipped Disc had 23,757,707 readers in 2020, which works out at over 2 million a month when we take into account one unaccountably blank summer…
View More Another record year for Slipped Disc as we head for new heightsPrincipal percussion has explosive final bash of the year
A message from Graham Johns, principal percussionist of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Make sure you watch to the end.
View More Principal percussion has explosive final bash of the yearDeath of Dave Brubeck’s bass, 97
The Brubeck estate has announced the death of bassist Eugene Wright, last surviving member of the Dave Brubeck Quartet. Known as ‘the Senator’, Wright played with…
View More Death of Dave Brubeck’s bass, 97Bayreuth baritone dies, 79
The Hungarian baritone Sándor Sólyom-Nagy has died in Budapest. He made 238 appearances at the Bayreuth Festival from 1981, notable in Meistersinger and Tannhäuser. In…
View More Bayreuth baritone dies, 79Happy New Year
A Happy New Year from All at Planet Hugill Beethoven: Fidelio – Jonas Kaufmann – Royal Opera (Photo ROH/Bill Cooper) This year we have posted…
View More Happy New Year“The power of art rests in its ability to evoke a wide range of emotion” – Alka Bagri: In conversation
The Bagri Foundation was established in 1990 to provide support for education, healthcare and relief work. Its founder, Lord Bagri, CBE, believed in a collective…
View More “The power of art rests in its ability to evoke a wide range of emotion” – Alka Bagri: In conversationFou Ts’ong, Famed Chinese Pianist, Dies of Covid-19 at 86
Driven from China during Mao’s rule, Mr. Fou kept up a correspondence with his father that became a beloved book in the wake of the…
View More Fou Ts’ong, Famed Chinese Pianist, Dies of Covid-19 at 86From a 1550s Pandemic, a Choral Work Still Casts Its Spell
We know remarkably little about John Sheppard and his “Media vita.” But it has become a cult favorite of early music.
View More From a 1550s Pandemic, a Choral Work Still Casts Its Spell‘Half masks’, packed foyers and bar queues: are Covid-safe theatres really safe?
Sydney Opera House has become the latest to mandate mask wearing – but even with safety measures in place, going to the theatre carries ‘an…
View More ‘Half masks’, packed foyers and bar queues: are Covid-safe theatres really safe?