We reported yesterday that Abigail Pogson, head of the Gateshead Glasshouse (formerly Sage), had refused to sign Nicholas Serota’s letter defending the Council’s box-ticking Let’s Create policy. Pogson, a Council member for the past three […]
A Hamburg court has ruled in favour of the gadfly website Backstage Classical, which had been subjected to a cease-and-desist injunction by the Salzburg Festival artistic director Markus Hinterhäuser. Backstage publisher Axel Brüggemann had been […]
The Czech violinist Pavel Šporcl was playing the Mendelssohn concerto with the Mlada Boleslav Chamber Orchestra when a sideswipe from the conductor’s baton knocked his precious blue violin out of his hands. Only a swift […]