Arguably the least musical US national anthem

Message received: Serbian cellist Maja Bogdanović had a brush with the law when passing through Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport. Her bag triggered a red alert at security and within seconds she was surrounded by five policemen. […]

The Swiss flute player Sebastian Jacot, denied tenure after two years as principal at the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, has just issued a cryptic assessment of his situation: After 12 years in Germany—seven of them in […]

Charlie Chaplin When he died, in December, 1977, he was Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, Knight of the British Empire, but he was born 136 years ago on 16th April  1889 as plain Charlie Chaplin in […]