The 2024 Ryedale Festival runs from 12 to 28 July, featuring 58 performances in 35 locations including Castle Howard, Sledmere, Hovingham Hall, Selby Abbey and Ampleforth. The festival features seven world and UK premieres. The […]
In The Bleak Midwinter – Wigmore Hall Why is this the world’s most popular Christmas carol? Its message (thanks to Christina Rosetti) is miserable and, what’s more, inaccurate. Assuming that Jesus was in fact born in […]
The NY Times reports the death of Jean-Philippe Allard, founder of the jazz division at PolyGram France (now Universal). Allard revived the careers of two generations of sidelined jazz artists, having first failed at a […]