Joana Carneiro & Gavan Ring Thomas Traherne was a Herefordshire clergyman who died in 1674 aged 38. Known now as a poet to equal his great contemporary religious writers John Donne, George Herbert and Henry Vaughan, […]
The popular Quebec violinist Angèle Dubeau has been forced to give up playing by a persistent hand injury. She says: ‘For as long as I can remember, music has been a part of my life. […]
The festival is making stringent economies. Before it began, Katharina Wagner said that, after cuts, the chorus would be maintained at 134 singers. Today, the festival website listed 118. Tobias Könemann of the Union of […]