We have been notified of the death of the international Japanese conductor Kazuyoshi Akiyama, at the age of 84. Music director of the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra for four decades, 1964 to 2004, he was transformational […]
A survey of Which readers has displaced the Irish airline from its coveted position as the least popular and worst value carrier. There is actually a short-haul airline that’s more cramped, delayed and inhospitable, believe […]
The venerated pianist, playing the first Shostakovich concerto last night in Tel Aviv with the Israel Philharmonic, asked the conductor Lahav Shani to announce that she was playing the encore for Alon Ohel, a prisoner […]