The brilliant jazz writer and sports journalist Richard Williams discovers a fellow-double-header: I first got to know Philippe Auclair, a Frenchman living in London since 1986, as someone who wrote about football in both French […]
From our agony aunt’s mailbag: Dear Alma, I’m finishing second year at a midwestern university and things were going well until now. But there’s end-of-year stuff going on and it’s getting a bit weird. My […]
The authoritative tones of Elena Efimova will not be heard again announcing artist names and titles of works at concerts in the small hall of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic. She has been sacked after 49 […]
The German violinist has told BR-Klassik that they really need her in America. She has no intention of joining the Tetzlaff-Schiff boycott: BR-KLASSIK: You’ve toured the US quite frequently. Entering the country has suddenly become […]
Two dropped out in the week the competition started. A third, China’s Xiaofu Ju, withdrew ‘for medical reasons’ as the quarter-finalists were about to be announced. The following 17 are still in the running: […]
Editorial by Hana Gubenko Not rarely one hears Those above; the government, the media, the educated, the rich, the refugees, the powerful and powerless, the doctors, teachers, bankers, the unvaccinated, criminals, transgender and transphobes, […]
Join Jeff Rosenheim, Curator in Charge of Photographs at the Met, for this charming little film. It gives a closer look at the extraordinary group of tintypes from the William L Schaeffer Collection featured in […]
Eímear Noone (Photo: Andy Paradise) Last year I chatted to composer Eímear Noone about writing for video games, films and TV in advance of her Video Games in Concert tour with the Heritage Orchestra [see […]
Libby Croad (Photo: Alexander Barnes) On Sunday 22 June 2025, Brighton Festival Chorus and City of London Sinfonia join forces at Cadogan Hall under the baton on James Morgan for a concert that features Duruflé’s […]
Liz Mohn Foundation’s Neue Stimmen Finalists’ Concert has established itself as one of the world’s most important events for promoting emerging talent. The names of former winners such as Vesselina Kasarova, Franco Fagioli, Marina Rebeka and […]
