VIDEO PODCAST: Discussion about Bernard Haitink (1929-2021), Salzburg, Roger Doyle's Finnegans Wake Project, the English Symphony Orchestra, the Chopin Competition Warsaw, Los Angeles Opera and other subjects in our hour-long November 2021 video.
PROVOCATIVE THOUGHTS:
The late Patric Standford may have written these short pieces deliberately to provoke our feedback. If so, his success is reflected in the rich range of readers' comments appearing at the foot of most of the pages.
The existence of these ancient Romanian musicians came to light on 1 April 2004 when Elica Lupus-Popescu, folk music history lecturer from the music academy in Cluj, Romania, wrote a feature for Music & Vision Magazine about her startlingly original research.