From an informed slippedisc.com reader: Without wanting to deny the obvious managerial issues during Davies’ tenure at OA (summarised in some of the other comments, some entirely valid observations, but also some sexism/ignorance on display), […]
Our resident critic has spent his week at Handel and Mozart operas: by Alastair Macaulay In 1930, William Empson wrote a classic of literary criticism in “Seven Kinds of Ambiguity”. In subsequent decades, the title […]
The Proms have had a lucky year, with only one major cancellation. Here’s a bigger one, just in: Sir Simon Rattle must undergo routine surgery in the next few days so, regretfully, he has had […]