Tag: Music

Rock music's rough, confident spirit of rebellion has gone. Some of us can't help feeling nostalgic for it

Too many opera directors display contempt for audiences and composers in their eccentric adaptations. We need more powerful intendants

Rock stars are more interesting after 40 than when they are young and menacing

Geoffrey Wheatcroft experiences a highly charged farewell

Geoffrey Wheatcroft is too pessimistic. Thanks to small record companies such as Naxos, there is plenty of new music even if it's not very modern

Increasing complexity has characterised the last 200 years of classical music. But, however difficult a composer might seem at first, if musicians want to play his music it will find an audience

Herb Greer goes to Oxford to hear Nigel Kennedy play Elgar and Beethoven with a student rchestra. As long as he plays like this, we can forgive him his mannered eccentricity

Has rock music become brutal and tuneless or are we just getting old? Tony Parsons says that the musical generation gap is more evident in the US than in Britain, with its tame and familiar sounding Britpop. But the real…

There are two types of arts festival, says Edward Pearce-unsmart ones in pretty places and those visited by Dr Bragg and the leaders of the Republic of Letters