Phyllis Kinney, who has died aged 103, was an American soprano who fell in love with Wales, becoming a leading collector, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chris Wormald meets the then Prince Charles backstage at the Royal Albert Hall in November, 1999 after a performance by Smithills ...

The concerto’s genesis is inseparable from the cataclysm of 1914–1918. Elgar, who had once captured the swagger of empire, now found himself in an “autumnal” frame of mind, his music falling out of ...

The Germans claimed they buzz-bombed Manchester last week (see FOREIGN NEWS), but they didn’t hit John Barbirolli. Conductor Barbirolli and Manchester’s famed Halle Orchestra had pulled a surprise ...

In the 18 concerts of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony which John Barbirolli, dynamic little Italo-French Londoner, has conducted since his debut last month (TIME, Nov. 16), Manhattanites have ...

Professor Michele Dougherty is President of the Institute of Physics and Professor of Space Physics at Imperial College London. She was appointed Astronomer Royal last year – the first woman to hold ...

AFTER John. Barbirolli’s first appearance with the Philharmonic-Sym-phony, I parked myself out on a limb by noting that “he seems to be the sort of young conductor the orchestra needs.” The same limb ...

John Barbirolli, the Philharmonic-Symphony’s newest maestro, didn’t start the season by overturning Carnegie Hall, but he seems to be the sort of young conductor the orchestra needs. There’s no sense ...

Arguably the most instantly recognisable and dramatic pieces of music ever written for the instrument, Elgar’s Cello Concerto is one of the greatest pieces of music written in the early 20th century.

The sign read “Radio Éireann”. It was over the first door on Henry Street in Dublin, a side entrance to the GPO. On Monday, February 10th, 1964, I walked in for the first time and took the lift to the ...

Tributes have been paid following the death of a former conductor of one of Britain's oldest symphony orchestras. Scottish conductor James Loughran, who has died at the age of 92, led Manchester's ...