Anna Lapwood is disengaged

Aaron Copland – Fanfare for the Common Man Born on this day in 1900, Aaron Copland  was 90 when he died in 1990. Often referred to as the “Dean of American Composers”, he wrote in a […]

This is the 2025 list of Guggenheim award winners, out today. Three have been selected as ‘notable’ (good word for a composer) – Katherine Balch (pictured), Michael Patrick Dease and Huang Ruo. Full list: Holland […]

Three days after 182 anonymous staff members attacked its Gaza silence, the Royal Ballet and Opera has scrapped a plan to share its new Tosca production with Israeli Opera next year. Chief exec Alex Beard […]