Leonard Cohen would have been 90 today

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, […]

Message received: HM Chapel Royal  Hampton Court Palace  Carl Jackson MVO has announced his retirement as Director of Music of His Majesty’s  Chapel Royal, Hampton Court Palace at the end of August 2025.  Carl has […]

The Russian violinist Rosa Fain, a pupil and later stage partner of David Oistrakh, has died in Dusseldorf, where she was Professor at the School of Music for many years. Like her teacher, she was […]