Our agony aunt has freelanced in the Berlin Phil and knows the situation from the inside. Dear Alma, I am a young musician trying to get a foothold on a career. I am still in […]
The sinister BDS is calling for ‘creative, peaceful pressure’ on the prog-rock group Radiohead to ‘convincingly distance itself’ from Israel. The euphemisms here are insidious. Radiohead’s creative force Johnny Greenwood is married to an Israeli […]
The German conductor, author of My Life with Wagner, has written another about Richard Strauss. It’s out in German next month and he has been talking about it at Salzburg, where he’s conducting Capriccio. Of […]