The future of conducting is looking bright — everywhere except in Russia and America

Nigel Kennedy’s latest principled stand against “Jurassic“ FM and the forces of musical conservatism

Don Everly’s death officially marks the day the music died

The drummer of the Rolling Stones — a man of rare class, wit and distinction — has died at the age of 80

Women’s rights are far more precarious than we have been led to believe

A large proportion of the English drive themselves mad with a baroque cocktail of fury, snobbery and self-hatred over Gilbert and Sullivan

This is a recording that encapsulates the other, older side of Europe

The end of the Sparks brothers’ career matches the intensity and originality of its beginning

The first duty of a conductor is to imagine a world without noise

Knowing Rage Against the Machine are political doesn’t overcome my determination to enjoy them anyway