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"I told you no good would come of Brexit!" (Photo courtesy of the LSO) In a move that will shock the orchestral profession w...

Today, as Theresa May unveils her Brexit deal at cabinet and rumours of a likely no-confidence vote are running rife, Dame Sarah Connolly, t...

His name is Richard Wagner, and if you let him, that's what he'll do. Of course, you mightn't show him in through the door in th...

In these febrile times, I think it takes some courage to march around Westminster singing and playing the Ode to Joy. This is precisely what...

...oh, look. It's our very own London Philharmonic Orchestra, whose Australian CEO, Tim Walker, is quoted in a Telegraph article extol...

Barenboim raises a hand with his Berlin Staatskapelle. (Photo: bbc.co.uk) Three days into the Proms and it's already clear that the...

The Creative Industries Federation published an important Brexit Report last autumn, looking at critical issues for the creative ind...

It seems that the person who could have done best at running the STAY IN THE EU campaign is actually running the leading artists' manage...

New home: the Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg [PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS THE JDCMB APRIL FOOL'S DAY POST 2017] The London Philharmonic Orches...

Apart from being remembered as the man who drove the UK over the cliff, Prime Minister David Cameron may also go down in history as the one ...

Poppies. Photo: John Beniston via Wikipedia Below, the Elegy for Strings, "In Memoriam Rupert Brooke", by Frederick Septimus ...

This is probably the most astonishing performance of Beethoven's 'Appassionata' Sonata that I've ever heard. Barenboim w...

Absorbing what's just happened to my home country takes some doing. Remember, against the nearly 52 per cent of people who voted to lea...

Today 300 historians have added their voices to the Remain campaign, pointing out that were we to leave the EU, the UK would simply becom...