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RIP Earl Wild, the great American pianist who has died at the age of 94. There's a perceptive and thorough obituary on the Gramophone site, written by Jeremy Nicholas and another excellent

I’ve been away on tour with the LPO in sunnier climes, but in the intervening time a piece of mine came out in the Independent. The day of the woman conductor…

A FEW days ago, Guernica magazine accused me of not citing sources when I criticised Noam Chomsky. I responded by posting a source-ridden chapter from my What's Left (you can read the

I have a piece in today's Independent about the new classical series at the Roundhouse, 'Reverb', from 22 to 31 of this month, aimed at cool 20-somethings. The crux is: to stop

The other night I saw Dinner with Portillo -a show whose conceit of filming members of the chattering classes eating lukewarm food and regurgitating received opinions I can assert with confidence would

Lord Justice Jackson's report on legal costs today is a remarkable piece of work and his presentation at a press briefing - delivered without notes - left the Lord Chief Justice and

[UPDATE, FRIDAY 15 JANUARY: Since writing the post below, I've been in contact with Alex Prior who tells me that he was "totally misquoted" in the articles that caused the fuss!]I've been

The rumours from the comrades are of one last coup attempt against Gordon Brown in March. The Cabinet will tell him to go and install Alan Johnson. Whether this is likely to

Over at his blog Entartete Musik, my pal Gavin Plumley links to Alan Bennett's piece in the London Review of Books in which our playwright muses that it's much easier to choose

No music lover can have escaped the information that this is CHOPIN YEAR: the great man's bicentenary. (Along with Schumann's, of course, and there's a big deal about Mahler too, but they