Trump that, says Hummel

The journal Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture reports that leafy vegetables can be grown larger and faster if you play them classical music. Bach’s Brandenburg concertos yielded the best results, especially with pak-choi plants. Rock […]

Buon compleanno to the formidable Italian maestro, who turns 84 today. He is the doyen of his guild and he will know better than most that the one to beat is Arturo Toscanini, who retired […]

The musicologist David Evatt Tunley has died in Perth at the age of 96. A student of Nadia Boulanger in Paris, he wrote a seminal work on the French 18th century cantata and was decorated […]