The very early days of Suhail’s life were divided between his hometown of Kashipur, and Delhi, where Sabri Khan Saheb (Suhail ...

But in a piquant irony, just as the short-lived “world music” CD boom was whetting people’s appetite for new sounds, so those sounds were becoming homogenised out of existence, in response to the ...

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate; it goes on to become. —W.H. Auden (1907–1973), English poet Musical sounds exist in time and the time is always now. It ...

As it is nearly the end of term, the orchestra can be a noisy environment in which to work, and I’m not talking about the violas cowering in front of the trumpets. There is a level of acceptable ...

New book, The Music, is “definitely a piece of music,” its author Matthew Herbert tells me, but “the more I wrote it as music though the more like a book it became. In the end though, the object is ...