This year’s Wolf Prize in Music will go to the Hungarian composer György Kurtág, who is 98. The citation says: György Kurtág is awarded the Wolf Prize for presenting a shining example of a true […]
In The Bleak Midwinter – Wigmore Hall Why is this the world’s most popular Christmas carol? Its message (thanks to Christina Rosetti) is miserable and, what’s more, inaccurate. Assuming that Jesus was in fact born in […]
Matthew Feargrieve, a lawyer who assaulted an underwear designer who was trying to climb into the neighbouring seat at the opera in March 2019, has been suspended for 12 months by the Bar Standards Board. […]