Anna Lapwood is disengaged

The San Francisco Symphony has declared ‘a unique transitional moment’ for 2025-26, which means the locker is bare. It has no music director, not much original content, no strategy. Jaap Van Zweden will lead the […]

Our agony aunt’s mailbag this week is bulging with ‘take me home’ cries: Dear Alma, I am a 16 year old violinist at a summer music camp. We have been here for 2 weeks and […]

Cardiff University announced today that it is cutting 400 jobs, closing the school of nursing and getting rid of numerous degree courses in the humanities. Among the subjects to be axed is music. The music […]