Musicians who look like their pets: (6) Heifetz and the bodyguards

Sergei Prokofiev Click here to subscribe A musical genius with human failings…both sides of this prolific composer are revealed in this striking account of his 1936 return to Russia and its tragic consequences. Director Oliver […]

Aaron Copland – Fanfare for the Common Man Born on this day in 1900, Aaron Copland  was 90 when he died in 1990. Often referred to as the “Dean of American Composers”, he wrote in a […]

The Grawemeyer-winning composer Olga Neuwirth is working on a new opera with Nobel Prize literature winner Elfriede Jelinek. Titled ‘Monster’s Paradise’ it features an incompetent, brutal king, easily recognised in today’s political pantheon. The style […]