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Royal Conservatoire Scotland has fired its head of jazz, Professor Tommy Smith, after an investigation into allegations of a relationship with a first-year student, according to the Mail on Sunday. Smith is a formidable figure […]

In my very early teens, I sneaked into an over-16s ‘A’ film of an all-black casting of Bizet’s opera Carmen. Never having seen Carmen in an opera house, I was overwhelmed and not a little […]

PR release: Jalimpa, a singer-songwriter raised on Suo-Oshima Island, Japan, has been certified by Guinness World Records as the “Youngest Solo Artist to Release an Album” for her debut album “Nonsense Makes Sense”, which she […]