Derek Cable committed the offences on a boy in 1975-76 at Stowmarket Middle School. He was sentenced to five years. Details here. Cable, 74, has already
Martin Green is one of three composer winners of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation 20th annual Awards for Artists. The prize is £50,000 over three years. Martin Green (b.1977) writes music
Indiana University Opera Theater is live-streaming Giancarlo Menotti’s The Last Savage this coming weekend, Nov 14 & 15, in an acclaimed production from Santa Fe. There
Britain’s foremost Wagnerian can be heard on November 25 with the Kensington Symphony Orchestra, made up of high-achieving amateurs. Why? Because the late conductor Leslie
It happened this week at a Hollywood screening of Mike Leigh’s ‘Mr Turner’, but you could imagine the same at a concert or opera. Perhaps
Just like the bad old days when the StB watched everything, the Czechs have reverted to close observation. During a performance of Richard Strauss’s Tod
The city is planning a new Beethoven concert hall on the Rhine. The adventurous Zaha was longlisted, but has been dumped from the final three.
Basel is cracking the whip. Measures against non-EU musicians, outlined on Slipped Disc three weeks ago, have been reinforced with expulsion orders, to take effect next
They’re erasing the founder’s name for 30 pieces of silver. Now what? Watch. Despair. (Click on word ‘Post’ if video does not pop out) Post
You’ve heard about the letter Peter Gelb sent out, asking Metropolitan Opera singers to slash their fees. He is not alone. Several British companies have
The Mariinsky conductor is dedicating a Moscow concert to the memory of his friend – and Vladimir Putin’s – the French Total Oil boss, Christophe de
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