Arguably the least musical US national anthem

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: If you are looking for neglected stocks in these shaky times, you could do worse than sink a pair of ears into the music of Paul Ben-Haim. It […]

Philadcdelphia’s fire department declared an all-hands emergency in the early hours of Saturday morning after fire broke out in a building  near Rittenhouse Square. The Art Alliance building was occupied by the former University of […]

It has been announced overnight that the next director of the Ruhrtriennale is to be Lydia Steier, an opera director who has made her name in Lucerne and Vienna. Steier, 47, is from Connecticut, granddaughter […]