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Many thanks to everyone for your fantastic response to yesterday's post. Keep yelling! We shouldn't underestimate the quiet and de...

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

Deck the halls with chocolate silver,  Falalalalaaaah, meow me-ow... If you've been reading JDCMB for a while, you'll know...

Rattle, milking it. (Photo: LSO) Critic's hat for the day here: I reviewed Simon Rattle, Janine Jansen & the LSO for The Arts De...

It is Leonard Bernstein's centenary today. Above, the conclusion of his lecture series in 1973, in which as his 'credo' he pre...

Leonard Bernstein's Symphony No.2, 'The Age of Anxiety', isn't so much a symphony as a piano concerto-stroke-tone-poem. Ba...

Culture shouldn't be just a feather in the country's cap - it's the cap itself, says Jack Pepper, 18-year-old composer and write...

Rattle and the LSO. Photo: Doug Peters/PA THIS IS RATTLE. The posters greet you at the main entrance, on the programme cover, everywhe...

In a move that has shocked the UK arts world, the government has let it be known that it will not be providing any cash towards the new Cent...

The results of the feasibility study into the mooted new concert hall in the City of London are due out, I hear, (two months late) on Wednes...