I'll think of something later

It's up on YouTube, and the BBC put it there: the comic highlight of last week's Sondheim Prom. To get the gag, and the headline, yo...

In between the Proms' Mahler marathons - both of which I gave a miss, as you can only really hear the Third, Fourth and Fifth Symphoni...

They're here in town, whether standing in their serried ranks of Barclay's blue or wobbling under the weight of a novice. I saw my...

Somehow even when I'd rambled on about Verbier for The Arts Desk , I found there were peaks of the experience I'd still missed out...

Somewhere high in the top ten of recent, possibly even-all time British films is where I'd admiringly place Sam Taylor-Wood's direct...

With thanks to 'Schopenhauerian' on the BBC Message Boards, who posted the link, and acknowledgment to Gavin Plumley over at E...

No. it wasn't all lotus eating. For the most part I kept myself to myself, stocked up on delicious local produce and fresh bread in my s...

There they are, Trieste's two most original literary chroniclers, among the many statues in the public gardens described by Svevo (bo...

I've turned Schubert-crazy again. As with Wagner, the mania comes and goes in waves. It all started with The Greatest Piano Recital I...

One woe treads close upon another's heels. Now the two greatest British tenors of their generation, Philip Langridge and Anthony Rolfe ...

The name won't mean much even to the few tourists who visit the loveliest corner of Trieste - and there were none on the morning we wand...