Leonard Cohen would have been 90 today

This letter is doing the rounds online from conductor Anton Lubchenko to members of the St. Petersburg Governor’s Symphony Orchestra. You may find it horrific, sadistic and misanthropic. Russian musicians tell us that’s how things […]

I once offended the great man by deprecating the jacket he wore to work at IRCAM. It was a rumpled tweedy garment, half-town, half-country. ‘What’s wrong with it?’ he cried. ‘It lacks style,’ I said, […]