London’s dowdy Barbican Centre, home to the London Symphony Orchestra, is to spend £240 million doing the place up before its 50th anniversary at the end of the decade. Phase one will deliver a conservatory […]
Soprano Claire Rutter has given the Sunday Telegraph full details of the telephone pest who dogged her performance of Verdi’s Requiem in Liverpool Cathedral. She said: ‘People are not living in the moment and enjoying […]
Responding to Wigmore Hall’s withdrawal from its patronage, Arts Council Enngland’s CEO Darren Henley said this: ‘The idea that we don’t believe in, celebrate, invest in classical music is nonsense. We are here for every […]