VIDEO PODCAST: Find out about composers from unusual places, including Gerard Schurmann, Giya Kancheli, Nazib Zhiganov and Nodar Gabunia, about singing in cars, and meet Jim Hutton from the RLPO and some of our regular contributors in this eighty-minute February 2021 video.
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.
Barbara Sealock writes about classical music for Clavier, Playbill, Choir & Organ, Strings, La Scena Musicale, and other publications. She is a contributor to the book 21st Century Cellists and, in 2001, founded the former website, classicalfocus.com, where she contributed Boston-based classical news and content for four years. Her features on travel, culture, and the arts are published widely.
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