June 2010- Page 2

Indolence characterises the Labour leadership campaign. Well-meaning people wring their hands and say that the high bar potential candidates must leap before they can put themselves before the party should be lowered

The Mendelssohn scholar R. Larry Todd, not content just with having written the best biography there's ever been of Felix himself, has brought out the definitive biography of Fanny Hensel, Mendelssohn's sister.

They're down again, according to Rupert Christiansen in today's Telegraph. As he points out, though, that doesn't mean nobody wants to listen to classical music any more. Norman Lebrecht has long held