Conductor
Passing on the batons
The future of conducting is looking bright — everywhere except in Russia and America
And the band played on…
The appointment of a chief conductor little affects the general performance of an orchestra
High Drama on the Podium
Norman Lebrecht on the late, great Mariss Jansons who died on December 1st
Are we being misled on Georgia?
Claims of electoral fraud are serious — but they have not been substantiated
The crisis at Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre
Serious as it is, it is no anomaly
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
International Society for Libdem Consciousness
It’s a cult, but at least it’s one of the cheerful ones
Indulgent Italian treats
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Complete string quartets (Naxos)
Why Christian culture is essential to education
It deeply informed our art and our ideas
Alexandre de Moraes is no hero
Don’t make X an ex-X
Is this just fantasy?
Sir Brian May is wrong: farmers do care
Don’t trust the Runnymede Trust
The law is too indulgent of political charities
Neither beautiful, nor true
The new Fourth Plinth commission creates moral and artistic confusion
Let publishers publish
The protracted corporate decision-making process is stifling the books industry
