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Try as we will, we couldn’t not be organists. Prospects of glittering financial rewards seldom motivate us and our incomes would be greeted by plumbers and electricians with derisive mirth. We lack even the spiritual benefits that come from being actively resented, like cops or tax collectors. Rather, truth be told, we become organists not because we can, but because we must
Sir Malcolm Sargent breathed life into the BBC Proms. Yet for all his fame and fortune, says Andrew Green, the conductor’s personality and music-making heavily divided opinion
On the night of 15 April 1912, one of the most heroic performances in history was witnessed, as the musicians of the Titanic carried on playing despite their inevitable fate. Andrew Green tells their story
EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: In 1990, the then Prince of Wales authorised Jimmy Savile to interview Major General Sir Christopher Airy for the post of private secretary to him and his then wife Diana.
Jay Nordlinger on the Miró Quartet, American Ballet Theatre’s Romeo and Juliet & Teatro Nuovo’s Poliuto.