Chopin goes viral in Bulgaria

From a brilliant FT column by mathematician Tim Harford: Mozart and Haydn were composing string quartets a quarter of a millennium ago, when the industrial revolution was in its infancy. Since then, the scale of […]

In a exclusive extract from his new memoir, out on February 25, former English National Opera chorus singer Ian Bloomfield remembers an unpredicted opening night in Moscow in 1990.   We performed Verdi’s Macbeth at […]

The influential California viola player Kay Pech has died, aged 87. Kay was principal violist of the Disneyland Orchestra for 43 years. As a violinist, she was concertmaster of the Wichita Falls Symphony Orchestra in […]