JDCMB
Jessica Duchen's Classical Music Blog. Music and writing in London, UK.
Sunday, June 08, 2008
Mary Whitehouse moment...
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Having missed The Minotaur at Covent Garden, I watched it on TV yesterday - yes, BBC2 actually decided to show an entire brand-new opera by...
Tragic deaths of Halle Orchestra couple
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I'm sorry to have to report that Halle Orchestra musicians Mike and Dorothy Hall have been killed in an avalanche while on a walking hol...
Saturday, June 07, 2008
Why didn't he just turn the guy into a flautist?
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My eye was caught today by this story from The Times about 'the cellist of Sarajevo', who is extremely upset by a novel called, er,...
Friday, June 06, 2008
Tosca, or Why the Best is the Enemy of the Vaguely OK
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It was one of those Cloud 9 moments: a man on a ladder starts to sing, the sound hits you in the gut and you undergo some kind of out-of-bod...
Monday, June 02, 2008
The Apprentice Concert Manager
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With two weeks to go until our Hungarian Dances concert-of-the-book, I've somehow acquired a whole new respect for concert managers. Me...
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