Last night’s late-breaking news that Katharina Wagner had been renewed for five more years as artistic director of the Bayreuth allowed millions of Germans to sleep soundly in their beds. Katharina, 45, is the great-grandchild […]
From my new monthly essay in The Critic magazine (out now): … I was not surprised to receive a 72-page book from the Ministère de la Culture, listing all the events the state has planned to […]
Scientists at King’s College London believe they can accurately predict changes in musicians’ heart rates while playing. The experiment collected data on the heart rates of musicians playing the Andante con moto from Schubert’s Trio […]