At the crossroads again
Michael Henderson wonders what direction English National Opera will now take
Oscar syndrome
Awards ceremonies grow ever sillier and more self-important
Farewell, Claudio Abbado
Fellini’s credo ‘the visionary is the only true realist’ could also be applied to the life of Claudio Abbado, who…
Music in Vienna
There is no finer city in which to hear music than Vienna. Or, to put it more felicitously, there is…
The music of innocence
Michael Henderson on the splendour of carols
Flogging a dead parrot
Monty Python was funny once. But a revival is a dreadful idea
Berlin: The best bar in the world
‘You were at the Fish, I hear,’ a Berlin friend told me. ‘I didn’t know you were an old hippie.’…
Conduct becoming
Michael Henderson talks to the youthful conductor Daniel Harding, who realises that the older he gets the more he has to learn
This charmless man
The sad end of the Morrissey myth
The pity of war
Of all folk memories the Blitz remains one of the most enduring. In the autumn of 1940 the Luftwaffe strafed…
Failing the Test
Test Match Special is the sound of the English summer. Why are we letting it be vulgarised?
