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Extra layer this morning, its quite chilly out there. As we go through today we are looking at a mixture of sunny spells and showers, all of the details very shortly. Its thursday the 12th of september. Our main story. A major review into the nhs in england says the Health Service is in a critical condition, with long waits for care, poor Survival Rates for cancer, and crumbling infrastructure. The report by Lord Darzi, a surgeon and former Labour Health Minister, also highlights failings in Soc...

Sister of the celebrated Felix, Fanny’s own prodigious gifts were kept as quiet as possible and long remained unknown. A new film, by Fanny’s direct descendent, tells her story

A new film pays tribute to Felix Mendelssohn’s talented sister Fanny

This travesty could never happen now. And yet in many ways, the singer Britney Spears, living nearly 200 years later, has suffered worse, without even the benefit of an encouraging partner

Sheila Hayman uncovers the story of the pioneering composer whose talent was overshadowed by her brother Felix due to a long history of sexism in the classical music world

Dartmouth Films will release Sheila Hayman’s feature film Fanny: The Other Mendelssohn on 27 October throughout the UK

<strong>Editorial:</strong> For centuries the achievements of women have been ignored in classical composition. That can’t go on

Your essential guide to the upcoming season in classical and choral offerings in the Washington, D.C area.

For centuries, much of what today we call classical music was commissioned by the church for use in worship. Professional musicians were often church musicians, and their business was religion. Palestrina, master of Italian polyphony, was music director at St. John Lateran in Rome. He wrote more than a hundred masses and about as many hymns.

This year’s four-dayer will focus primarily on works from the late Romantic period, taking in charts from the likes of Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Dvorak and Grieg.