The venerable choreologist and ballet master Georgette Tsinguirides is retiring this weekend from Stuttgart Ballet after 72 years in the job.
‘Best to stop while you’re still standing,’ she says.
After a short career on stage Georgette Tsinguirides started out as John Cranko’s assistant. He sent her to London to master the Benesh notation method and she returned as Germany’s first choreologist, cserving and teaching the ballet heritage.
The British composer Michael Nyman has switched his worldwide management to onlystage.com, a company with just eight other artists.
On 23 June, the cast of Opera Holland Park’s production of La rondine as well as the players from the City of London Sinfonia performed an encore of ‘Bevo al tuo fresco sorriso’ in loving memory of our friend and colleague, Debbie Lamprell.
Soloists: Elizabeth Llewellyn as Magda, Matteo Lippi as Ruggero, Tereza Gevorgyan as Lisette, Stephen Aviss as Prunier
Opera Holland Park Chorus
City of London Sinfonia
Conductor: Matthew Kofi Waldren
An appalling video is circulating of the moments after an urban bus struck the car in which a popular Brazilian singer and her boyfriend were travelling, killing them on the spot.
The video has been watched millions of times.
What kind of sub-human species, you wonder, would film such a thing and then upload it to the internet?
And what kind of people would watch it, and share it?
There are times when being online exposes unknown depths of sub-humanity.
Stop this world, we want to get off.
It’s a line from a new opera on a 1960 gay witch hunt at Smith College, Mass., where a professor was arrested in possession of gay porn and saw his career and life destroyed.
Now, composer Eric Sawyer of Amherst College and lyricist Harley Erdman of UMass have turned the tragedy into an opera, The Scarlet Professor, to be premiered in September on the site of Newton Arvin’s downfall.
You can read more, and hear an excerpt, here.
Vladimir Ashkenazy will blow out 80 candles tomorrow.
Decca is bringing out an album of Bach suites.
Soft-spoken, modest and unfailingly friendly, in any international poll of him fellow-musicians Vova would surely emerge as the most popular living classical artist.
Kevin Ramessar was flying home to Kitchener from playing lead guitar in the Carole King Musical on Broadway.
He checked in his acoustic guitar, a $4,000 Czech-made Stonebridge, in a rigid case with fragile stickers all over.
When he collected the case in Toronto, the guitar had been snapped at the neck.
Air Canada has informed him that ‘in accordance with the federal Carriage by Air Act’, its liability for damage or loss is limited to a maximum $2,075.47. They are refusing to enter into further correspondence.
Air Canada was recently named best airline for musicians.
Kevin’s guitar
The orchestra has responded with positive action to last week’s racist incident, when a concertgoer was evicted for abusive conduct.
The TSO is giving out free tickets to 100 young musicians from ‘underrepresented communities’ during the course of the coming season.
The abuse victim, Aisha Ahmad, has called it ‘ a great teachable moment for our city’.
Report here.
Veronika Part, principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre for the past eight years, has announced an abrupt retirement. She will dance for the last time on Saturday at the Metropolitan Opera House.
Her withdrawal comes two weeks after the final performance of prima ballerina Diana Vishneva.
To lose one Russian prima is unfortunate. Two suggests a political movement.
Veronika Part (c) ABT
