The pianist and former president of the Curtis Institute has joined our debate on music education with some trenchant, painful observations. Further to Robert Fitzpatrick’s

It will be ten years this week, April 23, 2005, that Youtube went live, and a while longer before it changed our lives. Started by three

1 Maurice Ravel on the go 2 Puccini lighting up 3 Mahler has a pull, in New York 4 Gershwin can’t compose without it 5

In the late 1970s, classical recording was in the doldrums. The same old conductors were re-recording the same old works, issued on LPs that were

We’ve had a tip-off from Lyon that Serge Dorny has been shortlisted for the vacancy of BBC Proms chief. The Belgian, who was sacked last

A study at the University of Southern Denmark has found that peer pressure and competitive stress shortens the lives of creative people. ‘Competition has a