Orchestra
The Sea! The Sea!
Southbank Sinfonia Baroque at St John’s Smith Square
Passing on the batons
The future of conducting is looking bright — everywhere except in Russia and America
Savour the silence
The first duty of a conductor is to imagine a world without noise
And the band played on…
The appointment of a chief conductor little affects the general performance of an orchestra
High notes go wrong
Flying is a macho thing for musicians. It shows they are in demand and living the good life
High Drama on the Podium
Norman Lebrecht on the late, great Mariss Jansons who died on December 1st
The birds and the beef
Far from being an ecological enemy, cattle-grazing encourages natural diversity and helps in the battle to save some of our most endangered species
The people behind the podium
A treatise on the life and mating habits of the party political activist
Women’s rights shouldn’t be up for debate
MPs need to stop questioning the rights of biological women
In praise of women’s football
Don’t let the FA score an own goal by letting transwomen into women’s sports
Funny old game
What would Big Jack have made of today’s shoots?
Good and evil on the new frontier
Our current ethical guidelines are hopelessly inadequate for a new era of unimaginable technological change
Bombastic lecture on the evil empire
From the suppression of colonial documents, Caroline Elkins spins a tale of violence
The farce awakens
Not long ago, in a parliament far, far away
What lies ahead for the Australian election?
Labor’s Anthony Albanese might have a chance
Labour’s Indian problem
The local elections suggest British Indians are drifting away from the Left
Why hasn’t the Cabinet lost faith in Boris?
It is the history of Cabinet resignations, not no confidence votes, that indicates whether a Tory PM survives