Prom 40 (Susan Elkin reviews)
Well, it’s a very pretty piano: a fine example of high Victorian bling. It’s just a pity that Queen Victoria’s piano, on...
Well, it’s a very pretty piano: a fine example of high Victorian bling. It’s just a pity that Queen Victoria’s piano, on...
Unexpectedly, the high spot in this initially populist concert was the Lutoslawski concerto for orchestra (1954) with which it ended. Full of...
Opera Holland Park Education is a progressive realisation of our own ignorance, as Einstein said. The same applies to classical music and...
Garsington Opera at Wormsley The Happy Princess by Paul Fincham and Jessica Duchen, loosely based on an Oscar Wilde story, is a mini-masterpiece....
When I was a child in the early 1980s, for several years in a row we would chuck a load of camping...
Till death us do part. That’s what we vowed at St George’s Church, Forest Hill back in 1969 and we both kept...
My Loved One has now been in palliative care for what feels like a very long time indeed. I’m writing this as...
This horrible, hideous, hair-raising story is nearly over. Last Wednesday I was called into the hospital at 2.30am. I got there in...