The Long View | We Need to Talk About Audiences
Audiences are collapsing. Whatever the reasons, we need to turn it around - before we look like we...
Opinion
The Long View | We’re all Nordic music fans now
The Nordic countries have triumphed over UK musical life. Let us celebrate their newfound dominance...
The Long View | Season Launch Blues
Picking apart an opera or concert season before it’s started is armchair criticism at its cheapest....
The Long View | Taking Nationality Out of Competitions
Can the intrigue, rivalry and interpretative context of an international music competition work when...
BBC: Licensed to thrill?
Anne Templer writes in defence of a British cultural institution following proposals to abolish the...
Simon Mundy: Not all Russians are the same
Simon Mundy puts forward his case for a more supportive approach to Russian musicians, as many do...
The Long View | Denouncing Putin isn’t political. It’s human.
The Russian president’s pet musicians must denounce the despotic leader, or history will be their...
The Long View | Dausgaard, Politics, Music and Health
We love a good story about a conductor flouncing off. Like his conducting or loathe it, Thomas...
The Long View | Do you remember 2002?
We organized music differently twenty years ago. As an industry we’ve changed for better and for...
Jocelyn Lightfoot: We are what we wear
The London Chamber Orchestra’s managing director writes about the orchestra’s ground-breaking move...
