A coupling of the Elgar Violin Concerto and Violin Sonata today; plus, a truncated performance of the concerto, all led by Albert Sammons. Born in 1886 in West London, Sammons’ remarkable life includes leaving school […]
The chair of Dartington Trust, Lord David Triesman, has issued a six-monthly update, saying the financial situation is now stable. Of course, there is no summer school and festival. Here’s what he writes: Our earlier […]
Alastair Macaulay reviews: Two by Chekhov – The Three Sisters (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, playing to April 19); The Seagull (Barbican Theatre, to April 5) No foreign playwright returns to the London stage more often than […]