Wales FM urges rethink on music college cuts

I once offended the great man by deprecating the jacket he wore to work at IRCAM. It was a rumpled tweedy garment, half-town, half-country. ‘What’s wrong with it?’ he cried. ‘It lacks style,’ I said, […]

Seven years ago, the Portuguese poet of the piano Maria Joao Pires shocked the classical world by announcing her retirement. It seemed somehow unreasonable as she was playing better than ever and her occasional four-hand […]

Richard Klein, principal of New York’s High School of Music and Art, has died, aged 94. He unified two schools in 1984, creating Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and the Performing […]