The Long View | Season Launch Blues
Picking apart an opera or concert season before it’s started is armchair criticism at its cheapest....
Opinion
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...
Lady Smith OBE: In defence of 'elite'
Lady Elise Smith OBE. founder of the Tetbury Music Festival, responds to this month's Long View,...
The Long View | Elitism State of Mind
Let’s leave ticket pricing to the economists; where elitism exists, it lies deep within ourselves,...
