Ever heard Bartok play Scarlatti?

The Swedish conductor, 97, has pulled out of concerts tonight and tomorrow with an ear infection. Matthias Pintcher is jumping in. One change in the programme: Beethoven 7 replaces Schubert 6. The post Herbert Blomstedt […]

From our agony aunt’s mailbag: Dear Alma, WTF? Making news in just the last week. Enough is enough. We have been patient, working hard against a wall of male privilege, getting passed over for jobs, […]

The Sixties singer and Mick Jagger girlfriend died today in London aged 78. Austrian-Jewish on her mother’s side, Marianne grew up in the north of England in considerable poverty. Starting out as a folk singer, […]