Leonard Cohen would have been 90 today

Christopher Morley, long-serving arts editor of the Birmingham Post, has written an op-ed today attacking its flailing management and failing reputation. Here goes:     The name of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra glows […]

Remember when they didn’t start selling tickets until May? And everything sold out within hours. The Bayreuth Festival has just put its 150th anniversary festival on show, and partly on sale. Christian Thielemann will open […]

The Russian Ministry of Culture has finally named an artistic director for the Moscow State Academic Symphony Orchestra, which has been headless for more than two years. Ivan Niforchin (pictured), 29, replaces Pavel Kogan who […]