Martha Argerich, 83 today, plays Prokofiev in Hiroshima

A statement by the great man’s three children in the NY Times today: Our father, the composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein, liked to tell us about the time Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis called to ask him […]

Amid the voluminous tributes to the BBC’s late creative director, we ought to point out that Alan Yentob knew nothing about classical music and disliked to be reminded of its existence. Although he once cleared […]

Message received: Opera Australia pays tribute to the extraordinary Aubrey Murphy, Concertmaster of the Opera Australia Orchestra from 2001 to 2012, who passed away in London this week. Aubrey led the Orchestra under Opera Australia […]