Jann Parry sees The Royal Ballet’s double bill with Valentino Zucchetti’s Anemoi (a whirlwind of a ballet) and Cathy Marston’s The Cellist (an extraordinary combination of talents).
A captivating programme of dance dedicated to Igor Stravinsky on the 50th anniversary of his death launched the dance season at this year’s Nervi Music Ballet Festival.
Seventy years ago, on 16 June 1947, virtuoso violinist Bronislaw Huberman died at 64. He founded the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra by bringing Jewish musicians from Nazi Europe to Palestine, giving refuge to 1,000 musicians and their families.
Jessye Norman doesn’t give interviews. She gets irritated by the sports journalists who arrive knowing nothing about her or her music, “They ask me, what is it you do? That is not interesting.” But the Los Angeles Times got her to speak about a new project that 65 year-old Norman is passionate about: The singer…
Thieves who stole a £1.2 million Stradivarius violin tried to sell it for £100 to a man sitting next to them in an internet café, a court heard today. The man turned it down because his daughter already had a recorder, Blackfriars crown court was told. The previous day, Irish traveller John Maughan, 40, had…
A musician who went into a central London sandwich shop to buy something to eat has had a 300-year-old Stradivarius violin worth £1.2 million ($1.9 million) stolen, police said on Monday. British Transport Police have launched a public appeal to get the rare instrument back and the musician’s insurer, Lark Insurance Broking Group, has offered…
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