The Notting Hill Carnival this year is from Saturday 23 August to Monday 25 August and a big feature, as ever, will be the Steel Bands with the Steel Band Competition on the Saturday and […]
Message received: The Orchestra welcomed Second Violinist Gawon Kim (pic) last fall, and this summer will welcome three more members: Zubin Hathi as Principal Timpani and Brandon Mason as Section Bass in July, followed by […]
Jessica Duchen’s forthcoming biography of Myra Hess gets all steamed up when it comes to the young pianist’s love for the rising composer Arnold Bax. There were a couple of impediments. Bax had a wife […]