From my new essay in The Critic: The biggest noise to be heard in orchestral music is not the click and whirr of audience smartphones shooting TikTok clips in the slow movement. Nor is it […]
Ex-BBC man Adam Gatehouse, who took over as artistic director of the Leeds Piano Competition together with Paul Lewis nine years ago, is to step aside in the spring. Gatehouse has been sole artistic director […]
Barcelona – Duke of York’s theatre I’ve been in two very different cities this week – Barcelona and Rejkjavik. In neither case did I see anything of the town itself. In Barcelona I saw the […]