Ida Haendel – The One They Don’t Want You to Hear
Ida Haendel – The one they don’t want you to hear by Norman Lebrecht / June 22, 2000 WITH its pristine acoustics and sexy ceiling…
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Noxious Crossover
Noxious Crossover by Norman Lebrecht / June 14, 2000 ONE night last week, having despaired of finding anything more cultural on British television than saggy-bottomed…
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…
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…
