I'll think of something later

Stravinsky ballets with the students on Tuesday evening, a whistlestop tour from Z to A – that’s to say, from Zhar-ptitsa ( Firebird to ...

There are two reasons to rejoice in Abbado’s long-awaited return to Milan, set down for June 2010 as outlined in this widely-circulated ne...

Two hours with my Inside the BBC Symphony Orchestra students on Tuesday weren't enough for Mahler Five, so I was a little worried abo...

Sorry to learn that Nicholas Maw has died aged 73. This New York Times piece captures more than the London obits I’ve seen. Even past the ...

That was my first startled reaction to David Alden’s new English National Opera production of Britten’s Peter Grimes . As the Borough (ak...

On the same night that assorted EU folk were listening to the European Opera Centre five (see below), UK telly watchers saw Allison Iraheta ...

I use that title, as has friend and former European Union Youth Orchestra front-man Andrew Hammond before me, as a two-edged sword. Beetho...

All that time the blogging keyboard remained idle, the camera was still there to record the passing of time. I thought, by way of an interlu...

‘If you’ve enjoyed Cheri , tell all your friends’, declared the very professional MC at the Cine Lumiere screening of Stephen Frears’s new ...

Who’d have thought it, the redoubtable one-time diva of the Bolshoy in an understated gem of a screen performance as a Russian grandmother? ...

I realised, even as we came upon the magnificent sight on 1 January, that migratory flamingoes feeding on the shrimps of the salt lake so c...

First message on the answerphone when we arrived back from the remoteness of our Cyprus retreat was from Robert White of The Guardian , tell...

The bright lights of London at this time of year certainly help to keep it from looking like the 'great, grey Babylon' of James'...

From The Letters of Lytton Strachey ed. Paul Levy (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, New York): To Leonard Woolf, from 'Ye Olde Mermaid Inn...