Tag Classical
Book Review Constanze, Mozart’s Beloved Agnes Selby
Was Mozart’s wife, Constanze Maria Weber, a flibbertigibbet spendthrift, prone to infidelity and an inappropriate spouse of a great musician? To read some of the opinions of the time, including, and especially by, Mozart’s father and sister, this would seem…
CHOPIN’S PIANO: a book review
CHOPIN’S PIANO A Journey Through Romanticism by Paul Kildea The author of this book, is currently the Artistic director of Musica Viva. For 2021 he planned to tour a first-person present-tense theatre-music piece created by an actor and director based…
ME TOO (in Sweden)
The name Benny Fredericksson is not well-known in Australia. Until he committed suicide in March 2018 in Sydney, he was the husband of the world-famous Swedish mezzo-soprano Anne-Sofie von Otter. The couple were near the end of her concert tour…