Emotions run high at WNO these days. When the company’s co-directors, Sarah Crabtree and Adele Thomas, feel impelled to take ...

The sax-player Kenny Garrett established a reputation as one of Miles Davis’s band in the Amandla (1989) period. He was also a member of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, the launching-pad for scores of ...

Vladimir Jurowski and Vilde Fring after the performance of the Schumann Violin Concerto, with LPO players including leader Peter Schoeman (left) and co-leader Alice Ivy-Pemberton behind himGeoff ...

The titular “lighthouse of glass” is a place where the narrator is “crying into the sun,” in which there is a need to “stand by my solitude.” Choosing isolation and self-determination are themes ...

Stereo Instrumental Music was recorded in July 1976 and originally issued only on cassette. The release was organised by what ...

What a complete transformation from one album to the next. The last one, Vous-avez dit brunettes? – did you say brunettes – (Alpha, 2021) opened tongue-in-cheek with the bleating and bells of a flock ...

His masterpiece, Rhinoceros, which was first staged in 1959 and is now revived at the Almeida Theatre, does present a challenge. Its central point is simple: conformity results in monstrous ...

PH Burton (played by Toby Jones) was the teenage Burton’s English teacher in Port Talbot, a wannabe playwright who was on the brink of fame when the war broke out, and he was deployed as a teacher ...

It’s sometimes entertaining, sometimes preposterous, and sometimes pure cringe. The songs follow the chronology of Hopper’s life. For instance, there’s a floaty Floyd-ish song early on called “Blues ...