Online arts are playing a vital role in keeping up our spirits and feeding our souls during the Covid lockdown. And while no one would su...

It was a daunting task – to cover 900 years of western music from 12th century sacred monophony to 21st century jazz in one afternoon wit...

There’s so much to love about the annual London International Festival of Early Music – amazing musicians, an astonishing array of rare i...

The annual Blackheath Halls Opera is always a highlight of the cultural year in south-east London and it’s also a favourite with readers ...

Major world premieres, medieval chants, Hindustani folk music, Hollywood soundtracks, Taiwanese dance, First Nation tribal traditions, a ...

What could be musically more exciting than a live jazz-funk gig? One featuring James Taylor on Hammond organ, that’s what. His show at Bl...

If anyone ever doubts the contemporary relevance of what’s played and displayed at the perennially marvellous London International Festiv...

I’m not given to rating events out of 10 but if I had to I wouldn’t hesitate to award Trinity Laban’s Shapeshifter and Contemporary Music...

Get it wrong and comic opera can be a disaster. But get it right, like this year’s sold-out Blackheath Halls opera La Belle Hélène, and i...

Sweet Charity has a heck of a musical pedigree – the original director was Bob Fosse, the book was by Neil Simon and the near-perfect son...