Arguably the least musical US national anthem

Silk Roads – British Museum smuggling secrets Camel caravans crossing desert dunes, merchants trading silks and spices at bazaars – these are the images that come to mind when we think of the Silk Road. […]

We are sad to learn of the death of Yehudi Menuhin’s beloved daughter Zamira, a benign and constructive figure in musical affairs. The child of Menuhin’s first marriage to Nola Nicholas, he have her the […]

Zurich Opera hired the Russian exile Kirill Serebrennikov to mark  what would have been Alfred Schnittke’s 90th borthday this month. His staging of ‘The Idiot’ replaces recent anti-Putin connotations with maximum gay exposure. From Lotte […]