There is a public outcry in Finland after a junior school in Uusima cancelled a concert of Handel’s Messiah by the Finnish Baroque Orchestra and the Helsinki Chamber Choir, apparently out of anxiety that its […]
From my new monthly essay in The Critic magazine (out now): … I was not surprised to receive a 72-page book from the Ministère de la Culture, listing all the events the state has planned to […]
It died, for lack of funds and an excess of interference by individual board members. The death last week of Mary Sharp Cronson reminded one of our readers that she was the force behind the […]