Many Happy Returns to composer Dominic Muldowney, 68 today.
New on YouTube today: the premiere performance in 1939 of Sir Arnold Bax’s Symphony No.7.
10 June 1939 [sic], Carnegie Hall: Sir Adrian Boult conducts the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra. NB, actually June 9, reports the Philharmonic's archive: "Conductors Boult, Adrian Soloists Goossens, Leon / Oboe Works Smetana / The Bartered...
Salzburger Festspiele 2020: Press Text: Terrace Talk JEDERMANN.
Hugo von Hoffmannsthal, 1874-1929 (librettist for some of Richard Strauss's operas) Press Text: Terrace Talk Jedermann Pauline Knof, Tobias Moretti, Caroline Peters and Gustav Peter Wöhler. Photos: SF/Anne Zeuner (SF, 18 July 2020) Construction of the stage and...
From the Anderson Archive – No.2 – Sir Adrian Boult records Vaughan Williams’s Job with the LSO for HMV.
Recorded in August 1970, this is Sir Adrian’s fourth and final studio recording (there’s an ICA DVD of him conducting it at a concert) of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Job: A Masque for Dancing (first-performed in 1931), one of the composer’s greatest works, which he...
The First Night of BBC Proms 2020 – premiere of Iain Farrington’s Beethoveniana/Grand Virtual Orchestra || From the Proms Archive, recorded @ Royal Albert Hall: Beethoven PC 3/Levit & Gardner | Birtwistle Panic/Harle, Clarvis & Davis | Mahler 3/Abbado.
Friday 17 July 2020, BBC Radio 3 @ 7 p.m. Guest Writer, Antony Hodgson This year, the BBC will broadest six weeks of Promenade Concerts taken from the archives and will end the season with two weeks of live concerts at which there is unlikely to be an audience. The...
James Conlon and LA Opera’s 2010 Wagner “Ring” Cycle To Be Audio-Streamed in Marathon Webcast, July 25.
MUSIC DIRECTOR JAMES CONLON AND LA OPERA’S 2010 WAGNER RING CYCLE TO BE AUDIO-STREAMED IN MARATHON BACK-TO-BACK WEBCAST OF ALL FOUR MUSIC DRAMAS, SATURDAY, JULY 25 STARTING AT 8:00 A.M. PACIFIC TIME Webcast commemorates 10th anniversary of performances,...
ISM responds to government’s announcement that indoor live performances can resume with socially distanced audiences from August 1.
Incorporated Society of Musicians Chief Executive Deborah Annetts, responding to the government announcement that indoor live performances can resume with socially distanced audiences from August 1, said: “We welcome that indoor live performances can resume with...
Oliver Dowden, Culture Secretary, tweets…
"From 1 August socially distanced audiences can return for indoor performances in theatres, music halls and other venues. This builds on pilots with @londonsymphony and others. So pleased to make progress to Stage 4 of our road map for culture." Oliver Dowden, 17 July...
Marian Anderson’s Home Suffers Severe Flooding.
"The home she purchased in 1924 and in which she hosted numerous Black musicians restricted from performing in "white" venues, is in danger of closing--permanently. When ancient pipes recently burst, there was no one there to notice the three-and-a-half feet of water...