Leonard Cohen would have been 90 today

There has long been a theory that the German master lives on in the form of Valery Gergiev, the post-Soviet conductor who provided cultural reassurance and stability for the criminal regime of Vladimir Putin as […]

The brilliant jazz writer and sports journalist Richard Williams discovers a fellow-double-header: I first got to know Philippe Auclair, a Frenchman living in London since 1986, as someone who wrote about football in both French […]

Dear Alma, I am in the brass section of an orchestra, and quite happy. There is a new member of our section. After our lunch break, she often comes back with a very strong and […]