January 11, 2026
Athens, GR 14 C
Expand search form
Blog
Previous Article

How short is an arm in the arts?

Next Article

Death of a stellar violinist, 73

You might be interested in …

Last night in Birmingham…

Last night in Birmingham…

A regular concertgoer reports:   I usually sit on the side circle At Symphony Hall, but was moved up to the higher level by the CBSO because my usual seats were being used by the […]

The day the symphony died

The day the symphony died

From my monthly essay in the new issue of The Critic magazine: I remember well the day the symphony died. It was August 1975, and I was sitting in a television newsroom when the teleprinter […]

All concerts and opera are cancelled in Graz

All concerts and opera are cancelled in Graz

Yesterday’s school shooting, which took 11 lives, has paralysed Austria’s second largest city. All public entertainments have been called off this week, starting with Handel’s Giulio Cesare at the opera. Across the rest of Austria, […]