Nelsons Bids Goodbye to Birmingham

When it was announced that Andris Nelsons was taking on the Boston Symphony Orchestra job, it seemed unlikely that he would be able to maint...

Accepting the End of Empire

I was standing in the wings of Symphony Hall earlier this week, waiting to go on stage and speak about Tchaikovsky's 'Manfred' S...

The Wet Ungenial Summer of 1816

It isn't an auspicious title for a story. And Lord Byron can't have been in a particularly good mood, having previously had to leave...