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7 pm ET: Lawrence Brownlee presents The Sitdown with LB. The tenor’s Facebook Live series returns with an unfiltered and honest look inside the opera industry. This week: Management, featuring Matthew Horner (IMG Artists) and Alex Fletcher (Fletcher Artist Management). View here. LIVE ** 7:30 pm ET: Met Opera Streams presents Donizetti’s Don Pasquale. Starring Beverly Sills, Alfredo Kraus, Håkan Hagegård, and Gabriel Bacquier, conducted by Nicola Rescigno. Production by John Dexter. Fr...

Print The La Jolla Music Society’s 2020-21 season will go on at the Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center but with livestreamed concerts replacing the performances in front of live audiences that were originally scheduled to take place between this month and late June. At least five of those performances, including by 21-year-old cello prodigy Zlatomir Fung and piano star Yefim Bronfman, will be livestreamed — sans audience — from The Conrad’s 513-seat Baker Baum Concert Hall. A few wi...

The nonprofit arts organization's digital season will include new online performances by Wynton Marsalis, Joffrey Ballet, Alisa Weilerstein, Sonia De Los Santos and more

Dame Fanny Waterman (1920-2020) - some recollections, with love and affection | reviews, news & interviews Dame Fanny Waterman (1920-2020) - some recollections, with love and affection Dame Fanny Waterman (1920-2020) - some recollections, with love and affection The Leeds International Piano Competitions Artstic Director remembers its founder by Adam GatehouseTuesday, 22 December 2020 Dame Fanny Waterman (centre) with 2018 Leeds international Piano Competition Winner Eric Lu (left)...

Sunday, December 20, 2020 Born March 22, 1920; died December 20, 2020 The founder of The Leeds Piano Competition and admired piano teacher, Dame Fanny Waterman, has died at the age of 100. Born in Leeds, Waterman studied with Tobias Matthay, and later at the Royal College of Music, London, with Cyril Smith. After an impressive career as a soloist, including a performance at the 1942 Proms with Sir Henry Wood (playing as one of the pianists in Bachs Triple Keyboard Concerto), she...

BBC News Published image captionDame Fannys exacting teaching style saw her dubbed Field Marshal Fanny Dame Fanny Waterman, the legendary piano teacher who founded the world-renowned Leeds International Piano Competition, has died aged 100. It was announced on Sunday that she had died peacefully in her residential care home in Ilkley, Yorkshire. Dame Fanny was a gifted pianist herself before turning to teaching and setting up the competition she ran for 54 years before stepping down in 2015. It...