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When it's comparable to cycling and prostitution, as this article in today's Observer claims , through an interview with the tenor E...

Our own utterly glorious Vladimir Jurowski , principal conductor designate of the LPO and music director at Glyndebourne, has been named the...

This peculiar awards ceremony took place yesterday. I don't think it quite matches up to what I was told a few weeks ago. A nice PR pers...

The Royal Festival Hall is reopening in a grand bonanza on 11 June after a major refit that is supposed to fix its acoustics. They're wo...

I regret not having discovered, until today, violinist-blogger Simon Hewitt Jones's reports from the Mozart in Palestine festival throu...

Apparently Nigel Kennedy was heard discussing Tasmin's little excursion with Sean Rafferty on Radio 3's 'In Tune' yesterday ...

I spent part of Tuesday afternoon standing under the Waterloo railway bridge watching Tasmin Little playing Vivaldi and shouting "Give...

An announcement came today that the new director of the Proms will be Roger Wright, controller of Radio 3. Nicholas Kenyon, who's leavin...

John Tusa, the chief of the Barbican Centre and one of the biggest, most intelligent, heavyweight, tell-it-like-it-is visionaries in British...

Spent a happy spring day yesterday at the BBC Music Magazine CD Awards bash on a boat on the Thames. What with the bubbly, the excellent foo...

The Washington Post 's Gene Weingarten has a fascinating article about what happened when Joshua Bell was persuaded to go busking to see...

If you fancy going to see Philip Glass's opera about Mahatma Ghandi, Satyagraha , free of charge at the London Coliseum on 5 April, Sky-...

But need it for an appropriate expletive in response to this alarming story reported by Matthew Guerrieri yesterday, with a link to the Ari...

David Hurwitz at Classics Today has succeeded in writing the article I've been trying to write for 20 years about the deeply misguided m...

The Indy tells us today that Kiri has won the court case of the flying knickers . The promoter sued her for breach of contract, wanting £820...

... join 'em! A warm welcome, please, for NORMAN LEBRECHT'S brand new blog on Artsjournal, linked to his new book, with the pricele...

Woke up to find my name and Elgar's splashed all over the business section of today's Indy. Stephen King argues that poor old Edu sh...

In the light of the Gant/Wordsworth debacle, here's another take on attitudes to new work of debated quality. In today's Independent...

Yesterday The Times carried a most extraordinary story . It seems that on 25 February the estimable maestro Barry Wordsworth decided at th...

On an Overgrown Path has distressing news that there is to be no more live music on BBC Radio 3 after 7pm except the Proms and the occasion...