Baroque
The dead city
Romanticism rising from the rubble
Germany in the Baroque Age
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the cultural achievements of the Baroque Age in the German states
The eye of the storm
Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque, Vivaldi, The Four Seasons
Some very healthy early music canaries
Helen Charlston & Toby Carr; Siglo de Oro (LFBM, St John’s, Smith Sq)
The Sea! The Sea!
Southbank Sinfonia Baroque at St John’s Smith Square
Crisis, what crisis?
The Spring Budget was a shameless manifesto of complacency and managed decline
The love that dare not speak its name
Classical music has been tarnished with the dread word “elitism”
Why the Voice failed
The Australian establishment has been too focused on symbolic gestures rather than practical change
Let’s change the cultural meaning of the penis
Our genitals do not entitle us to anything
Learning in the round
Spreading fingers over a globe, not pinching them on a screen, is the best way to answer questions
Scary cute
CUTE, a new exhibition at Somerset House is a deliciously unsettling stroll down the uncanny valley
Childhood reclaimed
Mobile phones have been constraining our kids’ imaginations — but it does not have to be this way
Giving noticing a bad name
Observing factual differences is not the same as leaping to conclusions
The City’s lights are dimming
The Square Mile is increasingly at risk of becoming an irrelevance
The wines of Israel
Israel’s wine heartland is now suffering from rocket attacks
Therapy is making children ill
What would really help children’s mental health is talk about resilience
