A cartoon reel of current conductors

The BBC Proms schedule, made public last night, contains plenty of temptations. – There’s the Vienna Philharmonic, rarely spotted in London nowadays, playing a cheerful pair of symphonies, Bruckner 9 and Tchaikovsky Pathetique. – My […]

During a Handel & Haydn Society concert at Boston’s Symphony Hall in May 2019, a 9-year-old boy shouted ‘wow!’ at the end of Mozart’s Masonic Funeral Music. H&H president David Snead, moved by the response, […]