The 2025 Ernst von Siemens Music Prize is to be awarded to Sir Simon Rattle, 70, ‘in recognition of his lifetime dedication to music’. The prize comes with a 250,000 Euros money order. It will […]
The London Evening Standard is to stop printing five days a week and will aim to appear, possibly, just once a week. When I arrived at the Standard as Assistant Editor in 2002, we put […]
Bringing music and the arts to the three most northerly Yorkshire Dales notably Swaledale, Wensleydale and Arkengarthdale, the Swaledale Festival comes round in May. Under the patronage of writer, lecturer and arts advocate Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason […]