Podcast » Joseph Horowitz
Joseph Horovitz explains that his early enthusiasm was for the visual arts, and that it was only from about the age of 19 that he turned seriously to music. After a degree at Oxford University, he...
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Podcast » Thea Musgrave
In 1969, Peter Darrell choreographed Beauty and the Beast for Scottish Theatre Ballet. In this podcast Thea Musgrave discusses with Stephen Johnson the challenges and idiosyncrasies she found when...
Podcast » Yvonne Minton
Stephen Johnson and Patricia Linton spoke to Yvonne Minton in 2017 about her role as a young member of The Royal Opera, singing Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde for The Royal Ballet in 1966. Her...
Diaghilev – genius or promoter of self? In addition to being central or crucial to the history of ballet in the 20th Century, Diaghilev was also intimately involved with musical developments of the...