Directs #opera, #film and things in between. Brit abroad, despite #Brexit, enjoying a life in #France. Oddly interested in #hedges and, less oddly, in #sailing.
There is no one with power to fight for classical music at the BBC now. It’s as if Herod runs the creche
Savage cuts suggest a cadre of bosses has forgotten what public service broadcasting is, says Paul Hughes, former director of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and the BBC Singers
Axing the BBC Singers is a gross miscalculation — heads should roll
It “prioritises quality, agility and impact”, the BBC says about its new strategy for classical music, unveiled this week. Well, a third of that claim is certai
BBC Singers to close in corporation’s ‘major review of classical music’
Reductions also made to the BBC’s three England-based orchestras as part of plan to ensure the long-term future of organisation’s remaining performing groups
Wigmore Hall director John Gilhooly: how to save music
If John Gilhooly ever decided to give up the day job, he could have a serious career in crisis management. Immaculate in pinstripes, the director of the Wigmore
If we defund opera saying it is for toffs, then only the toffs will go. Where’s the sense in that?
It is painful to see our top companies starved of funds and strangled by politics, while our best artists head abroad, says the Guardian’s chief culture writer, Charlotte Higgins
