Berlin plans funeral march for art and culture

One of the new Trumpist on the board of the Washington Performing Arts Center has been blue-sky thinking with the NY Times. Businessman Paolo Zampolli, who claims to have introduced Trump to his present wife […]

We hear that two string players in the BBC Philharmonic have been persuaded to take voluntary redundancy after complaining of noise related hearing damage. Both stepped down with reluctance. And neither job is to be […]

From my monthly essay in The Critic: Twice in the last century, Russia stood on the brink of world dominance. Specifically in music, but in other fields as well. Here’s roughly what happened…. Read on […]