Martha Argerich: No place to Haydn

Charlie Parker called her ‘the lady with the million dollar ears’. Sheila Jordan, who was white, married a member of Parker’s quintet and became a familiar figure on stage in New York’s golden years of […]

From my monthly essay in the new issue of The Critic magazine: I remember well the day the symphony died. It was August 1975, and I was sitting in a television newsroom when the teleprinter […]

Slippedisc, courtesy of OperaVision, travels to a European festival that is something of a hidden gem: Rossini in Wildbad in Germany’s Black Forest. Friday night’s production of Rossini’s sparkling medieval ballad, Le Comte Ory, includes […]