Denis Matsuev, the pianist closest to Vladimir Putin, was at Chelsea Football Club yesterday with soccer legend Andrei Shevchenko to make a recording for his video site.
Such a shame he had to see Chelski knocked out of the cup by a reinspired Man United.
Come on you Reds.
The family of Meribeth Dayme has posted news of her passing.
She was an acclaimed author, speaker, and master teacher—a pioneer in the fields of voice and the teaching of singing, speaking, and personal presence—bridging science, art, and spirituality through her CoreSinging method that was the culmination of a lifetime of tireless work. Her final wish was that her work might live on and continue to help people discover, embody, and live according to their true voice.
Originally from North Carolina, Meribeth lived in the French Alps and taught all over the world.
Ingrid Roose came first in the Concours international de jeunes chefs de chœur.
She draws big crowds.
We’re receiving reports from Brazil that Nelson Freire has fractured an elbow and shoulder bone in a street fall in Rio.
Freire, 75, will require surgery and will be out for the rest of the year. Among his cancelled engagements are Girona, Elmau, London, Amsterdam, Lyon and St Petersburg.
We wish him a full recovery.
Sir Simon Rattle has pulled out of the December 28 performance of Rosenkavalier at the Met.
His replacement is Gareth Morrell.
The award winning Jitka Šuranská died on Monday of cancer.
A violinist in the Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic in Zlín, Jitka became a singing star on the world music scene with a series of albums of indigenous and inventive music.
She had her own trio and worked with a local women’s choir and natural sound recordings.
The 10,000 Euro Giga Hertz Grand Prize 2019 has gone to the composer Eliane Radigue, who is 87 years old and has lived in New York for 40 years.
The prize is notionally for her life’s work. It may also be an epitaph for mid-20th century experimentalism.
when the world was young
There was a concert last night at the Mariinsky in the memory of the great Russian mezzo Irina Bogacheva, who died five weeks ago.
Hours earlier, Irina’s daughter Elena Gaudasinskaya died of cancer at the age of 52.
Elena was head of the piano accompaniment department at the St Petersburg Conservatoire.
