Saint-Saens alive! It’s cello heaven

The US jazz bassist Barre Phillips, resident in France for more than half a century, died in Mexico at the weekend at the age of 90. Founder of the European Improvisation Centre, he was a […]

Handel was in Rome in 1708 when he received a commission for a large sacred oratorio for Easter from Marquis Francesco Maria Marescotti Ruspoli, his patron at the time. La resurrezione was performed for the first time […]

The suspended Bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney, Anne Dyer, is facing a Clergy Disciplinary Tribunal in Edinburgh for behaviour unbecoming of a cleric and likely to bring the church into disrepute. Among the allegations to […]