The Proms – surely the greatest classical music festival in the world – returns this summer for its 131st season: a whopping 86 concerts, given over eight weeks and across six different cities.

As Daniel Craig once memorably announced, “Ladies and gentlemen, the Weeknd.” At the time was introducing the Toronto musician, also known as Abel Tesfaye, on “Saturday Night Live.” But ...

2025 has seen dedicated all-day celebrations marking the centenary of Pierre Boulez and 25 years of the world-famous New Generation Artists. A European Road Trip featured live music and guests ...

I don’t think there’s ever been much doubt that Frank Zappa was something of a maverick, and this made-for-TV concert, recorded in 1974, in the private rehearsal hall of the Mothers Of Invention, by ...

In theory, Frank Zappa should be the ultimate icon of progressive rock. In fact, I’m sure there are more than a few devotees to the father of the Mothers of Invention who would swear by that statement ...

such as Frank Zappa and Morton Feldman. The two pianists will also perform solo works discovered in Boulez’s archive after his death in 2016. The concert “Pierre Boulez at 100” is part of ...

The compositions (all by her) were co-commissioned by the Kennedy Center and the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin. Reid’s music could be aggressive in its extended technique, but it also featured ...

I only met Pierre Boulez (born 1925) once, and the circumstances were not propitious. Back in 2010, I’d been asked to sing in Stravinsky’s short opera Le Rossignol; a concert performance with the ...

He played with Frank Zappa, David Bowie, Talking Heads and others before joining King Crimson, where he was the guitarist and frontman until 2009. During this time, he also explored a successful ...