Pittsburgh picks principal bassoon

 Sargent and Paris explores the early career of American painter John Singer Sargent (1856–1925), from his arrival in Paris in 1874 as a precocious 18-year-old art student through the mid-1880s, when his infamous portrait Madame X was a […]

The Night Watch Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn would have celebrated his 419th birthday this week which is my excuse for writing about him. Rembrandt (he ditched the ‘Harmenszoon’ early and became known as, simply, Rembrandt) was […]

We’re rather exicted to learn of a cycle of Mahler shymphonies being performed in Norwich, an English cathedral town of 144,000 souls. They reach the fourth symphony at the King’s Centre next Saturday. The initiator […]