Arguably the least musical US national anthem

After a wave of international outrage, the management of Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw has reinstated Saturday’s concert by the Jerusalem Quartet, which it previously banned on safety grounds. The concert has been brought forward to 7 p.m. […]

The German town of Heimbach has named a road bridge to its power station in honour of the late Lars Vogt, founder of its music festival. Vogt, who died of cancer in September 2022, initiated […]

  Bernard Kops was one of the great post-war Jewish playwrights, poets and novelists, and he died a year ago this week at the age of 97. His first play,The Hamlet of Stepney Green, was produced […]