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Peter Donohoe
Aug 27, 2020
Archive: Classical Music on the TV Media and Film
I have always cringed whenever a classical music theme has entered a television drama or movie, Hollywood or otherwise. It is bad enough...
Peter Donohoe
Aug 27, 2020
Archive: Critics
SINGAPORE SLING In 2008, at the Chetham's Summer School, I was just about to go onstage to give an in-house evening recital when a man of...
Peter Donohoe
Aug 27, 2020
Archive: Fifty Great Pianists on BBC's Radio 3
As part of the BBC's Piano Season, I found myself acting as continuity announcer and program presenter/compiler rolled into one on Radio...
Peter Donohoe
Aug 27, 2020
Archive: The Art of Page Turning
Many people have tales of page-turners' mistakes. It is a very difficult job to do well. These mistakes can ruin a concert, and...
Peter Donohoe
Aug 27, 2020
Archive: The Leeds Competition (part 2)
I was invited as a guest to the whole competition, the most part of which I was unable to accept owing to performances elsewhere....
Peter Donohoe
Aug 27, 2020
Archive: The Leeds Piano Competition (part 1)
The Leeds Competition in 1981 was the third competitive event of the four around the world that I entered. In each of them I was a...
Peter Donohoe
Aug 27, 2020
Archive: Israel Diaries Part 1
ISRAEL DIARIES PART 1 I have spent the whole of my musical professional life without being able to coordinate a visit to Israel until...
Peter Donohoe
Aug 27, 2020
Archive: Tchaikovsky Competition Diary (1982)
TCHAIKOVSKY COMPETITION 1982 A DIARY BY PETER DONOHOE 08 June 1982 Recital at Charlotte Mason College in Ambleside in the British Lake...
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