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Claire Black of the Scotsman meets American mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato in Milano (click the link for the full article): Pop stars, soap stars, Big Brother contestants – it seems that anyone can now be a diva as long as they behave badly enou (read full article)
Matteo Pericoli found fame with his 22ft fold-out drawing of the Manhattan skyline. His new book shows the city through the windows of New York resident musicians, artists and writers, from Annie Leibovitz to Philip Glass, David Byrne to Nora Ephron (read full article)
Brian Duffy, whose photographs helped define the mood of the Swinging Sixties, has died aged 76. Together with David Bailey and Terence Donovan, Duffy formed part of the “black trinity” of photographers who became as famous as the models, musici (read full article)
The curators and administrators of the Handel House Museum in Mayfair, London, are now preparing to pack up their files, dismantle their desks and open up the rooms where Hendrix lived to visitors to mark the 40th anniversary of his death. Twin blue (read full article)
Eliza Carthy in concert at the Union Chapel in London. The set included songs from her album Anglicana, nominated for Album of the Year at the Radio 3 Awards for World Music in 2008. (read full article)
Malcolm McLaren, the man who irreversibly changed the face of British music as manager of the Sex Pistols, died yesterday, aged 64. He had suffered from mesothelioma, a rare form of cancer, for some time and, despite a recent period of good health, (read full article)
BBC Radio 3 pulled the plug on the broadcast of this recital, announcing a “disruption” at the Wigmore Hall. Listeners were startled to hear what sounded like a choir; this was some music hastily used to cover up the sound of protestors in the h (read full article)
It’s one of the great ironies of the classical concert experience – the most explosive, exhilarating music is often greeted by total silence. Let our applause be heard, says Alex Ross, who gave the Royal Philharmic Society lecture at the Wigmore (read full article)
(Pravda) Cocaine is cheaper than a cup of coffee in a London restaurant, authors of the parliamentary report made to estimate the government’s struggle against the import of heavy drugs in the country said. The price of one gram of cocaine has los (read full article)
Rose Gray, the co-founder of the River Café restaurant, has died after a prolonged battle with cancer. She was 71. The chef and cookery writer set up the London restaurant with Ruth Rogers in 1987. The pair were credited with influencing the likes (read full article)
I think the closest I have been to Tracey Emin was spending a sleepless night on a camp bed in the third floor back of 25 Fournier Street, Spitalfields, nearly thirty years ago. Both Tracey and I have come a long way since then, without ever meeting (read full article)
Earl Wild was an extraordinary pianist with that grand, big sound and that broad romantic approach – something rarely heard nowadays. A fine musician who has made my music listening incomparably richer. A superbly gifted and unique artist, perhaps (read full article)
“Every year, 200 litres of olive oil are pressed from Henze’s ancient grove.” Go to London to hear some Henze this weekend. Or pull out your own fingernails, it will be less painful. Hans Werner Henze likes to play the victim. His supposed “ (read full article)
(Sunday Times) The Queen once quipped that she was “too grand for us”. Now Princess Michael of Kent has struck up an unlikely friendship with Tracey Emin, the one-time bad girl of Brit Art, to modernise and “educate” her artistic tastes. The (read full article)
Lang Lang played the Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2 at the Royal Albert Hall last night. It sounded to me like he was tugging for Britain and China. OK, I watched about 25 seconds of it, but he’s quite literally unwatchable. Sound only, still dodgy (read full article)
The BBC Proms starts tomorrow. An interesting fun piece on the Today programme the other day, someone complaining about inappropriate Proms behaviour, mainly too much clapping between movements and in particular too quick to clap after the beauty of (read full article)
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