Walt Disney and Igor Stravinsky are examining the drawings of dinosaurs for the 1940 animated movie fantasia "'The Rite of Spring" by Igor Stravinsky. #smlpdf #sheetmusic sheetmusiclibrary.website

🚨New series on BBC Radio 3, starts next Monday🚨bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Love stories like this. But having just made a Radio 3 series on musical hoaxes, which starts TOMORROW, can't help but be highly suspicious... nytimes.com/2024/10/27/art…

Be honest, you never thought you’d live to see the M*il Online run a poll on Lawrence

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What are you Haydn? By me Guardian music about last week's series on musical hoaxes for BBC Radio 3 theguardian.com/music/2024/nov…

Nicolas Cage does David Lynch:

Here's why I think the proposed sale of the Observer to Tortoise would severely damage the reputation of the Scott Trust and threaten the future of the world's oldest Sunday newspaper, which I edited until last weekend 🧵

There's a lot to this piece of Christmas music, written by a man who wasn't religious. Boulez saw it as an “artificial paradise” in which Berlioz was taking “refuge from the anguish, the doubt and problems of his own day”. Amen to that. By me The New Statesman newstatesman.com/culture/music/…

A piece of sycophancy celebrating a British hero or a musical depiction of the worst in British arrogance and folly? Me on Ralph Vaughan Williams's Sinfonia antartica for the new issue of The New Statesman newstatesman.com/culture/music/…

The German jazz pianist Jutta Hipp was born 100 years ago on February 4. She signed to Blue Note in the early 50s, then moved to New York. In 1960, she disappeared. What happened? New from me for The New Statesman newstatesman.com/culture/music/…

Tonight! At 9:45pm, and for the rest of the week at the same time. The curious tale of Vivaldi's resurrection in the 20th century after he all but vanished from music history. New by me for BBC Radio 3 via Loftus Media bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Curious happenings after WWI in Italy. New from me for The New Statesman newstatesman.com/culture/music/…

There's a brilliant book on forgeries in classical music being published in June. I interviewed its author, Frederick Reece, for Van magazine van-magazine.com/mag/music-forg…

The strangest of stories. How on earth did an Italian conductor with close links to fascism end up in Palestine after WWII, directing an orchestra of Jewish musicians fleeing persecution in Europe? New from me VAN Magazine van-magazine.com/mag/molinari-i…

Brian Glanville, who has sadly passed away aged 93, was the greatest football writer this country has ever known. The joy evoked by Glanville was not only in reading his beautiful, insightful words. But also listening to his eloquent appraisal of a player, a manager, a match.

Really sorry to hear about the death of Neville Dilkes. Excellent conductor and man. Helped me and Alexandra Quinn out on a doc for BBC Radio 3 after we cold-called him in France. Couldn’t have been more kind. He’d just turned 90 and had got the “good stuff” out to celebrate. RIP

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