The thoughtful American musician Matthew Aucoin has been pondering a century-old question. I’m a composer and conductor in the field that’s broadly known as Western classical music, a term that’s routinely applied to radically different […]
The town of Bayreuth is planning a Nazi documentation centre. It will be housed in the former mansion of the British antisemitic polemicist Houston Stewart Chamberlain, a significant influence on Richard Wagner and Adolf Hitler. […]
The manager of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Nikolaus Pont, has circulated an open letter to colleagues, lashing out at the Süddeutsche Zeitung for minimising reviews of the orchestra. ‘I heard at the end of […]