Music in the Midnight Sun – Toronto Symphony For many of us, the Arctic exists only as a fantasy of snow and polar bears and endangered icebergs. Ignorant as ever, I didn’t realise that people […]
There is not one opera house in the world that would walk away from a $100 million gift, least of all the Metropolitan Opera of New York which has just drawn down more than that […]
From an interview with Ivan Hewitt in the Telegraph: ‘Beethoven … was so original, but he could only achieve what he did because of a great discovery of the West. It is the system of […]