Arguably the least musical US national anthem

James Joyce ​James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was born 143 years ago this Sunday on 2 February 1882 and died on 13 January 1941. He was an Irish novelist, poet and literary critic and a leader […]

The high point of the Lucerne Strings performance in Istanbul was a hightailed intervention by a local stray. As soon as the cat saw there was no conductor, it quickened the tempo.   View this […]

Fredrik Andersson, programme chief of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic and its Konserthuset, is to be head of the well-funded Gulbenkian Music in Lisbon from next April. He says: ‘I’m very excited and happy to become […]