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mainThe incomparable Two Ronnies.
Full of eternal truths and incorrectnesses.
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Opera
Guess what? New operagoers prefer old operas
Memo to Peter Gelb: Don’t read the Opera…
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Daily Comfort Zone
A rediscovered lullaby from Auschwitz
Leo Geyer, a doctoral student at Oxford University…
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RIP
Paavo Järvi mourns a leading string player
The conductor has posted a memorial notice for…
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Orchestras
Son of Richard Hickox lands first conducting job
The gifted Adam Hickox has been named chief…
Adam Fischer could learn a thing or two from watching this .
Hilarious and skilful timing.
Splendidly done. It brought a few minutes of rollicking fun in an otherwise dreary day reading about the StormTrumpers Would that the Ronnies seek high political office. THAT would give us hope.
I could get into Pops concerts if they did something like this!
Absolutely brilliant, and there’s a lot of erudition below the surface. I reckon the CBSO should take it on with Stephen Maddock and Simon Halsey…
Would it be currently acceptable to refer to Tchaikovsky as a “Jessie”, I wonder…?!
Don’t be so tight-arsed and PC. Can we all lighten up? I see you made no reference to the Gounod mention.
This is pretty good too: gosh he was a gifted musician!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86A0tqD_iSE