Twenty years ago, when the Rancho Mirage Library was about to open, Joan RuBane was approached about starting a chamber music concert series for the community. The man who approached her, the late ...

Julia Wolfe’s UnEarth will be on at the Barbican in January - Barbican As the winter evenings draw in, music becomes a solace as well as a pleasure. So far this year we’ve enjoyed a Proms season for ...

Unprecedented in my multi-decade experience of Handel Messiah concerts, the Dallas Bach Society audience last month started applauding after every aria and chorus. Two weeks later, there was applause ...

But this has been a year above all for the best of festival planning, the sort where you feel enriched by connecting threads.

For the last few years, my morning ritual has included clicking on to worldconcerthall.com when I first turn on my computer, cappuccino in hand. I do it before I look at The Times or anything else.