Weekly Column

Going Up? The Music of Louis Hirsch

Never heard of Louis Hirsch (1881–1924) and his Broadway operettas? Well, we can change that easily. Because our friends at

It’s June, and somehow, this season, I had not yet been to an opera at the Staatsoper, where I experienced

I don’t think I have been to a solo piano concert since I was at school. Julius Katchen. Lili Kraus.

I’m just back – exhausted – from Magdeburg. Yes, I didn’t know where it was either. But I do now,

I don’t know what it is about Lehar that attracts so many people. Well, that’s not entirely true. I do

Yesterday I went to Altenburg. I know, even my German friends say ‘where?’. Well, it’s a lovely town in Thüringen,