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It's 21 December! Welcome back to our cyberposhplace, with a difference. Nowadays we are all living permanently in cyberplaces. Paradoxi...

Back in the Royal Festival Hall: Chineke! takes the stage I'm astonished to realise that my schedule this past week has been a closish m...

A view from the terrace of the biggest arts centre in the biggest city in Europe, which ought to be our pride and joy Dear Southbank...

I don't think I'm the only person who's currently so cheesed off with the behaviour of our dear country on the international st...

Radu Lupu in rehearsal. Photo from New York Review of Books, nybooks.com The chairs were out for the returns queue at the Royal Fe...

Aurora plays from memory. (Photo: auroraorchestra.com) If you want music to lift you clean out of your chair, go and hear the Aurora...

Composer Lili Boulanger Asking because those of you who are as exercised as I am about the proper recognition of music that's writt...

Last night the Queen Elizabeth Hall reopened in grand style with a performance by Chineke! which by all accounts raised the new roof high ...

Quick note: if you're around the Southbank Centre for the Belief & Beyond Belief Festival today,  please pop along to the pre-concer...

Two or three years ago I wrote my first Cross Article about the sexism inherent in the classical music world and suggested we should have a ...

...with the first-ever virtual reality orchestra (an initiative with the Philharmonia) and a year-long festival with the LPO called Belief a...

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...