We have been informed of the passing of two important players. Bernard Ringeissen, who died on April 4 at the age of 90, was an early champion on record of the music of Charles-Valentin Alkan, […]
The competition has reached its semi-final stage without controversy. Three contestants pulled out and a fourth, Magdalene Ho, was dubiously eliminated after a first round performance in which she showed more character than all the […]
On the anniversary of the first nuclear-bomb attack on August 6, 1945, spare a moment for the human tragedy that was meant to bring the Second World War to an end. The immediate death toll […]