Concert-Hall Blues – Oh for an Acceptable Symphonic Environment
Norman Lebrecht MY letter to the Luftwaffe came back stamped ‘no longer on active service’ – more’s the pity, since it offered the only holistic…
Norman Lebrecht
Norman Lebrecht
Norman Lebrecht is a prolific writer on music and cultural affairs. His blog, Slipped Disc, is one of the most popular sites for cultural news. He presents The Lebrecht Interview on BBC Radio 3 and is a contributor to several publications, including the Wall Street Journal and The Standpoint. Visit every Friday for his weekly CD review // Norman Lebrecht est un rédacteur prolifique couvrant les événements musicaux et Slipped Disc, est un des plus populaires sites de nouvelles culturelles. Il anime The Lebrecht Interview sur la BBC Radio 3 et collabore à plusieurs publications, dont The Wall Street Journal et The Standpoint. Vous pouvez lire ses critiques de disques chaque vendredi.
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Rumours at NYPO
Norman Lebrecht HERE are the latest additions to my forthcoming Dictionary of Musical Euphemisms and Factual Economies. A couple of weeks ago, a well-placed source…
The floundering state of the arts
Norman Lebrecht HERE is a brief summary of the summer’s casualties. Two of America’s leading dance companies, the Martha Graham and the Cleveland Ballet, went…
Forecourt wars – Universal plans on taking on Naxos
IT is just as well the fuel blockades have ended, because a new war is about to erupt under the awnings of our filling stations.…
The rise and fall of Michael Kaiser
A FEW days after Michael Kaiser’s arrival as executive director in 1998, he and I had breakfast at the Waldorf Hotel. “This is a group…
Margot and Rudi: were they lovers?
Royal Opera House In part two of The Daily Telegraph’s serialisation of his extraordinary book on the Royal Opera House, Norman Lebrecht recounts the…
How the Garden lost its glory
Royal Opera House Arts Council of England In his new book, serialised over three days in ‘The Telegraph’, Norman Lebrecht lifts the lid…
Living on the edge – Reputations are on the line as audience opinion goes live on Radio 3
WITH a week to go before the series goes on air, nothing has been fixed and no participants booked – which is just as I…
A Maestro Need Not be a Mister
The treatment of female conductors is unfair, counterproductive and must stop There was a woman conducting at English National Opera last June. Nothing unusual about…
He might be smiling now… – Franz Welser-Möst Returns to Conduct the Proms
WHEN Franz Welser-Möst last flew out of London in 1996, he was in no hurry ever to return. Installed as music director of the London…
