Lawrence Kramer“What can be done about the state of classical music?” Lawrence Kramer asks in this elegant, sharply observed, and beautifully written extended essay. Classical music, whose demise has been...

Norman Lebrecht A century after his death, Gustav Mahler is the most important composer of modern times. Displacing Beethoven as a box-office draw, heard in Hollywood films and on state...

Chris Heath For the last twenty years, ever since a 16-year-old boy called Robert Peter Williams joined a boy band and was told what his new name should be, he...