The Edinburgh International Festival has just ended with its best box-office in a decade. The final tally was 88 percent ticket sales to 111,000 spectators from 91 countries. The Fringe did less well, albeit on […]
National Children’s Orchestras under 12 orchestra perform Shimmer and Glow at Portsmouth Guildhall, August 2023 (Photo: Vernon Nash) It shouldn’t need saying but it does, and there is a new survey to prove it. Yesterday, […]
From Tracey Thorn’s column in the New Statesman: The morning of the US election result I sat down at the piano and tried to play some Beethoven. Bearing in mind that I haven’t played the […]