classical music

Responding to Wigmore Hall’s withdrawal from its patronage, Arts Council Enngland’s CEO Darren Henley said this: ‘The idea that we don’t believe in, celebrate, invest in classical music is nonsense. We are here for every […]

The death has been notified of Isaac Chueke, an international  conductor formerly associated with the Teatre San Carlo in Naples. He was long resident in Paris where he founded the Groupe de Recherche Musiques Brésiliennes […]

The passing has been recorded of Vladimir Shcherbakov, tenor  soloist at the Bolshoi from 1977 to 1991. He was 86. His greatest fame came with a recording of the Soviet remake of Glinka’s A Life […]

 Kelli O’Hara Here is a terrific performance of the title song from the great Broadway musical, She Loves Me. It comes from this year’s Broadway Backwards,  the annual one-night-only event produced by Broadway Cares. It celebrates LGBTQ+, […]

After five years in charge, the chief conductor has given a rare interview to the elite orchestra’s website: Are there aspects of Mahler’s personality to which you have felt particularly drawn? His Jewishness has always […]

From my monthly essay in   The Critic: … there is just enough method in the Trumpian mayhem to suggest the possibility of positive outcomes. We have heard too much moralising from arts leaders. Arts centres […]

From our agony aunt: Dear Alma, I’m stuck between two cellists. One is a Zionist, the other pro-Palestinian. They no longer talk. I am the one expected to hold the section together, even though I am […]