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The concerts by Chineke!, Europe's first-ever majority BME orchestra, have been among the most uplifting of any I've attended. The p...

Long read ahead. Get a cuppa. The other day I went to Pembrokeshire to do a Ghost Variations concert with Viv and Dave, and came back ...

We were fortunate to have such a figure as Nelson Mandela in the world at all. Today everyone on social media seems to have found a pertinen...

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's short life ended exactly a century ago today. Half British, half African (his father was a doctor from Sierra ...

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...

DJ Mills is right: it's Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, in an article written in 1911, the year before his untimely death. I liked Steve's ...

Who said this? Answer tomorrow. Suggestions welcome in the interim (no prize offered). "...few recent compositions really move one - th...

Oh, sod it, I've got a new mousemat & keyboard ridge thing, both with a gel support for sore wrists, and if I don't write this u...

Written through a growing pile of tissues...My work doesn't often induce tears, but this is an exception. Philippe Graffin's new...