Danish media have just cracked the cost of hosting the last Eurovision contest. It ran four times over budget at 334 million kroner (£35 million).

Barrett Wissman, part-owner of the disintegrating IMG Artists, has popped up in Forbes magazine as a contributor on ‘the entertainment business, culture and the arts’.

Trendy, or meaningful?     Press release: Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival launched its new ‘Health and Wellbeing’ strand of work earlier this month, with a twelve

It must be something in the air that has prompted six resignations in as many weeks. This one is less hasty than some of the

Until this morning, the plan was that the much-loved but acoustically inadequate Salle Pleyel would cease to be used as a classical music venue after

The pianist Katya Apekisheva has started a social-media ball rolling with a list of the ten composers or works of music that irritate her the

Myung Whun Chung has come to Vienna’s rescue, taking over the Rigoletto vacated by the walkout music director Franz Welser-Möst. Peter Schneider steps in for

Andrew Bennett, a 30-year veteran in UK orchestral management, has been named executive director of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony in Canada. Andrew has been general manager of

I spent an elevating afternoon in Budapest with Ivan Fischer and his matchless festival orchestra around a performance of Mahler’s fourth symphony. I expressed a