I felt sadness as well as shock at the news of Dmitri Smirnov’s death, aged 71. By coincidence I had recently finished reading his book...

As we know, enterprises involving women go much further back in history than is generally credited. I only learned recently that...

Living on the periphery of the choral music world, I’m aware that there's a lot of reasonably good singing going on in the UK. It’s an...

Monday’s concert of Masters of The Queen’s Music from Sir Edward Elgar up to myself was given in the remarkable Sam Wanamaker Playhouse,...