Generosity gap
On donations to the arts in Europe and America TIS the season to be giving. Something close to £12 million poured in last weekend to…
Browsing: Lebrecht Weekly
How Smith Has Crippled Culture
How Smith Has Crippled Culture by Norman Lebrecht / June 7, 2000 IN THE bleary fourth year of New Labour, few members of the Cabinet…
Mariss Jansons – High Drama on the Podium
Mariss Jansons – High Drama on the Podium by Norman Lebrecht / May 31, 2000 FORTY minutes before a concert, Mariss Jansons mounts the stage…
Scots grip Vienna
The highlight of a Vienna Festival marred by the stigma of political extremism, was Scottish Opera’s glorious Macbeth, says Norman Lebrecht BANQUO’s ghost stalked the…
Zemlinsky Biography Reviewed
Antony Beaumont, Zemlinsky Faber & Faber, £30. 524pp Book Review by Norman Lebrecht / May 10, 2000 Probably the cruellest tribute ever offered by one…
Friends in need?
SSUE 1818 Wednesday 17 May 2000 Friends in need? BOC Covent Garden Festival – official site Norman Lebrecht on the callous misnomer “arts…
Good Managers are Hard to Find
Good Managers are Hard to Find by Norman Lebrecht / May 10, 2000 THE Royal Philharmonic Orchestra has lost its manager. What, again? I hear…
Heard But No Longer Seen
Heard But No Longer Seen by Norman Lebrecht / May 3, 2000 WHICHEVER way you look at it, and many have given up watching, BBC…
The Battle for Berlin’s Heart
The Battle for Berlin’s Heart by Norman Lebrecht / April 19, 2000 THE battlefront has finally reached Berlin. After two decades in which London, Amsterdam,…
The True Humanity of Alma Rosé
The true humanity of Alma Rosé by Norman Lebrecht / April 5, 2000 THE morning they took my neighbour Eleanor away for cremation, there arrived…
