"Herein is enshrined the soul of ....." Those five dots, placed by Elgar at the head of his Violin Concerto, have been causing everyone much fuss, bother and excitement ever since —
Is this the way forward for opera in the slump? Yesterday, the glamour of the West End; today, budget air travel? Good old bmibaby has come up with a novel idea to
The first ego is my own: I'm a guest commentator on BBC4's TV broadcast of tonight's Prom. It's the Halle conducted by Sir Mark Elder: John Fouls April - England, Beethoven Piano
Standpoint readers might be interested in this forthcoming event. The details are all below The New Culture ForumInvites you to hearRuth MackenzieDirector of the 2012 Cultural OlympiadSpeak onWhy We Need a Cultural
Dame Paula Rego claims never to have read Freud — a nice irony given that her psychologically complex works, deeply imbued with the sexual and the sinister, are as ripe for analysis
My column in today’s print edition explores the gulf between courts and Church. It was one of the issues that emerged in a discussion I chaired this week.
Avigdor Arikha, who died in Paris on April 29 aged 81, was one of the most interesting and accomplished of an internationally renowned group of figurative artists who dominated the latter decades
If the Tories don't win a solid majority in today's election they have only themselves to blame. Given the unpopularity of Gordon Brown and the state of the economy, a resounding victory