The Long View | An Unfit Arts Council
ACE’s counterproductive funding decisions prove the organisation has lost all sense of purpose and...
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The Long View | Making rich musicians richer
While some classical artists are still driving übers and stacking shelves, we’re foisting more and...
The Long View | Feeling Royal Peculiar
The Queen’s funeral was unspeakably moving, but deeply confusing for us fashionable, creative types...
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...
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...