Fiona Maddocks is the founding editor of BBC Music Magazine as well as of Channel 4 and The Independent. Now, the celebrated music journalist is out with a new book on Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943); Goodbye Russia: Rachmaninoff in Exile (Faber, 2023).
Fiona Maddocks is one of Britain’s foremost classical music critics. We discuss her new book; Goodbye Russia: Rachmaninoff in Exile (Faber, 2023).
The great Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff built Villa Senar on the outskirts of Lucerne between World War I and II. It has now been restored and is open to the public.
In the third part of our wide-ranging interview with Professor Raymond Holden AM, we discuss Richard Strauss’ (1864–1949) relationship with Nazi-Germany, his collaboration with the distinguished Austrian playwright and biographer, Stefan Zweig (1881–1942), and his Jewish family members.
In the second part of our wide-ranging interview with Professor Raymond Holden AM, we discuss Richard Strauss’s historical legacy as the last preeminent composer-conductor of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Emmerich Kálmán’s music is inspired by Hungarian folklore, history, and literature.
The Ohio Light Opera has built an international reputation as purveyor of the acknowledged masterworks and neglected gems of the operetta and musical theater repertoire
When Steven Daigle became artistic director of the Ohio Light Opera in 1999, the company added traditional mid-century American musicals to its repertoire.
On January 22, the Annapolis Opera Company held a concert at Temple B’Nai Israel in Easton, Maryland, where tribute was given to legendary American Jewish Broadway composers such as Irving Berlin, Steven Sondheim and Richard Rogers, among others.
Richard Strauss (1864-1949) is widely considered to be the last of the great composers who also influenced generations of younger conductors. One of them, Professor Raymond Holden of the Royal Academy of Music, discusses the composer’s life and legacy in a wide-raging interview.