Big composer prize goes to Brit

Statement by Equity, acting for the endangered chorus of Welsh National Opera: Equity members in the chorus of the Welsh National Opera will pause their first and second days of strike action, previously planned for […]

Schott UK have announced the death early this morning of the influential composer Alexander Goehr. Sandy was 92. A Hitler refugee, born in Berlin to the Schoenberg-trained conductor Walter Goehr, he studied in 1950s Manchester […]

I once offended the great man by deprecating the jacket he wore to work at IRCAM. It was a rumpled tweedy garment, half-town, half-country. ‘What’s wrong with it?’ he cried. ‘It lacks style,’ I said, […]