Florence Hallett
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A few spots of rain greeted the arrival of the...

In 1965, Bob Crewe was living alongside Central Park in...

Semi-standing ovation at a lunchtime concert in a London church? Predictable, perhaps, from the first recital I heard George Xiaoyuan Fu give at...

Mieko Kawakami is the champion of the loner. Since achieving immense success in the UK with her translated works, she has become an indie fiction...

An artist with a myriad of strings to his bow – gifted wordsmith, multi-instrumentalist, captivating...

Strictly Ballroom aside, I’ve never been entirely persuaded by...

A fortnight ago I performed Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with the Aurora Orchestra, joining them and their Principal Conductor Nicholas Collon in...

High culture...low life. Emmanuel Courcol’s film The Big Hit (Un Triomphe in France) is a 105-minute experiment in what...