One of Jane Austen’s manuscripts Gillian Dooley‘s book, She played and sang: Jane Austen and music, was published by Manchester University Press in March 2024. The book looks at the central role that music played […]
From Tracey Thorn’s column in the New Statesman: The morning of the US election result I sat down at the piano and tried to play some Beethoven. Bearing in mind that I haven’t played the […]
The young German conductor Dominik Beykirch has handed in his notice at the German National Theatre and Staatskapelle Weimar. Beykirch, now 32, was promoted to chief in the early months of Covid, having worked in […]