As a rather moody eighteen year old, I had a Summer holiday job working as a waiter in the small and very pretty Sussex village of Alfriston. For over two months I lived in the building on the left of…
American soprano Rosa Ponselle as La Gioconda in 1924 In the second of my ballet extracts centred round famous tunes written in 1875, I have moved to an grandly melodramtic Italian opera, La Gioconda written that year by the one…
This week I have come to the end of the year 1875 in my journey through the history of classical music – a year that turned out to be full of popular classics that have mostly held their place in…