
Can you play the violin while surfing a big wave?
It seems to be possible. A Portuguese surfer, Nuno Santos, rode the big waves of Nazaré over Christmas, while playing Jingle Bells.
It seems to be possible. A Portuguese surfer, Nuno Santos, rode the big waves of Nazaré over Christmas, while playing Jingle Bells.
I have posted my final album of the week on sinfinimusic.com, which is shortly to be amalgamated with the Deutsche Grammophon website. My last pick
The Salzburg Festival board has decided to affix a plaque to the Karl Böhm Saal, specifying that the conductor, while musically gifted, was an enthusiastic Nazi who
The great baritone has posted his entire concert of December 27, 2105. Click here to watch. PROGRAMME: Glinka Overture “Ruslan and Lyudmila” Prokofiev The first scene
These days Walter Levin is best known as lifelong teacher of the Met’s music director, James Levine. In his prime, he founded the formidable La
Michael Shobe on WQXR offers close analysis of the composer’s likely ‘inspirations’: For Han Solo and Princess Leia’s theme, Tchaikovsky sets the tone… Tchaikovsky’s Violin
In 2015 it was ‘none of the above’. A year of withdrawals, society weddings and concert lapses made this Chinese pianist the most watched on
Dame Josephine Barstow is seeking planning permission to build a Malthouse Arabians stableyard at Highlands Farm, Chiddingly, west Sussex. Now there’s a diva not going gently out
And then the thing goes viral with seven million Youtube hits. Yes, that kind of Paris day. After the video was shared, the two guys
Some two dozen members of the Minn Orch have put together a concert, to be conducted by Osmo Vanska and led by concertmaster Erin Keefe
The power tribes in South Korea are raising further allegations against the Seoul Philharmonic music director Myung Whun Chung, alleging that his wife was involved
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