BBC diversity hiring now includes the dead

The composer’s great biographer, who died this year, gave a wonderfully colourful interview some years back to the Elgar Society. It’s Jerry at his most discursive, remembering the most minute details of his quest. I […]

Washington sources say the president will offer personal input on future programming and will demand to nominate the artists who receive the Center’s annual honours. Since the board is now composed of Trump stooges, his […]

Nabil Shehata has just taken over the artistic direction of the Barenboim-Said Akademie Orchestra. He’s a former principal bass in the Berlin Philharmonic. Barenboim said: ‘I am very happy and grateful that Nabil Shehata has […]