Dido laments in Russian

After coming to the end of 25 years with Carlos Kalmar, Chicago’s Grant Park Music Festival has named a successor for the next three summers. He is Giancarlo Guerrero, who has just stepped down at […]

There’s no reason to read anything political into this, but the Lithuanian soprano Asmik Grigorian has cancelled a week with the Cleveland Orchestra this month, ‘because of personal reasons’. Here’s the official statement: The Cleveland […]

The video games composer Yoko Shimomura has been awarded a BAFTA Fellowship for her contribution to the games industry. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts is a major player in UK arts and […]