Composer Helen Caddick and textile artist Margo Selby collaborated on an immersive cross-genre piece, moon landing, for Collect 2024 at Somerset House. [see my article] As part of the exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery (which closes […]
Just as the Philharmonia Orchestra is using VR to enable people find out what it is like to join a live orchestra [see my article]. Another project is doing something similar but with a real […]
Handel’s Italians: Italian castrati in the London oratorios – music from Handel’s Esther, Deborah, Athalia, Belshazzar, Messiah, Theodora; Carlo Vistoli, Giulia Semenzato, Le Concert d’Astrée, Emmanuelle Haïm; Harmonia MundiReviewed 1 September 2026 This rather imaginative recital focuses on music from […]
.jpg?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "Celebrating the eclectic life of pioneering crystallographer Dame Kathleen Lonsdale: Electric Voice Theatre at Conway Hall for Bloomsbury Festival")
“For a married woman with children, to become a first class scientist she must first of all choose, the right husband” Dame Kathleen Lonsdale Crystallographer Dame Kathleen Lonsdale (1903–1971) was the first female professor […]
E. H. Shepard – Illustration to page 3 of Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) Nigel Foster’s London Song Festival is back this autumn with nine concerts from 5 November to 11 December under the banner of “Reaching Out […]
Philharmonia Orchestra’s Virtual Orchestra: Play Along (Photo: Marc Gascoigne) The Southbank Centre’s Creative Intelligence festival (11 to 13 September 2026) takes its inspiration from the Festival of Britain 75 years ago by exploring how artists, […]
.jpg?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "By turns ravishing & spine-tingling: period instrument orchestra Les Siècles is the star of the show in Berlioz's La damnation de Faust at the BBC Proms conducted by Jakob Lehmann")
Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust – Les Siècles – BBC Proms (Photo: BBC/Mark Allan) Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust; John Osborn, Véronique Gens, Gerard Finley, Chœur de Radio France and Maîtrise de Radio France, Les […]
Anthony Davis: The Central Park Five – Long Beach Opera 2022 (Photo: JJ Geiger) I first came across the case of the Central Park Five when I read Joan Didion’s essay Sentimental Journeys first published in the […]
St James Garlickhythe Church On Thursday 24 September at St James Garlickhythe Church in central London, pianist Christopher Glynn will perform and host an evening of live music in support of the charity Music in […]
The Adagio from Rachmaninoff’s Symphony no. 2 performed by the Holland Park Sinfonia and conductor Jashandeep Reehal. Jashandeep Reehal, Holland Park Sinfonia19 June 2026 (Photo: Marc Tunguz) Jashandeep Reehal is a self-taught musician from Punjab, […]
