Delighted to report that Grace Durham, mezzo-soprano daughter of the late comedienne, has come first in the 10th Concours International de mélodie française at Toulouse.

Břetislav Novotný, forced into slave labour under the German occupation, was one of Prague’s more enterprising violinists. Concertmaster of the Prague Symphony Orchestra from 1954,

Ode to Joy sung in Arabic on the streets of Beirut last night.   This is beautiful. Beethoven’s Ode to Joy sang in Arabic by

The composer Chou Wen-chung, who synthesised eastern and western modes in a modernism redolent of his New York teachers Otto Luening and Edgar Varèse, has

The inventive composer Theo Verbey died on October 13 after a long illness. Having made his name with a widely performed orchestration of Alban Berg’s

The Chinese lyric tenor Long Long, 28, was pronounced winner of the Neue Stimmen competition on German television last night. A member of the Opera

Macbeth, after a nervous start, was cheered to the rafters. Placido Domingo came in on a tide of US media accusations to face a cloud

At the American Academy of Berlin today, members of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra will mark one year since the synagogue shooting at Tree of Life