Music
Play it again, Sam
Nostalgia has long been the key to pop’s survival
To the bitter end
Why on earth would we want to see the same tawdry old stories endlessly re-enacted?
Long players
As long as the fans are alive, it seems that a band can keep going
Passing on the batons
The future of conducting is looking bright — everywhere except in Russia and America
“The new Liberace” strikes again
Nigel Kennedy’s latest principled stand against “Jurassic“ FM and the forces of musical conservatism
The last Everly brother
Don Everly’s death officially marks the day the music died
Charlie Watts: an unlikely rock star
The drummer of the Rolling Stones — a man of rare class, wit and distinction — has died at the age of 80
Trapped in a gilded cage
Women’s rights are far more precarious than we have been led to believe
The G&S divide
A large proportion of the English drive themselves mad with a baroque cocktail of fury, snobbery and self-hatred over Gilbert and Sullivan
Shostakovich: Piano concertos 1&2; piano trio 2 (Linn)
This is a recording that encapsulates the other, older side of Europe