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Michael Tanner, Cambridge philosopher, ardent Wagnerian and Spectator opera critic – obituary

Wagner: moralist or monster?

A review of Richard Wagner: The Last of the Titans by Joachim Köhler.

Finding the Meaning of Music and Morality - Boydell and Brewer

Guest post written by Paul Watt who is Adjunct Professor of Musicology in The University of Adelaide. The ‘go-to’ text for anyone who wants to understand the relationship between music and morality in the nineteenth century is H.R. Haweis’s 1874 book, Music and Morals, despite the fact that it doesn’t deal with music and morality

Russell Norman, restaurateur behind Polpo who blazed a trail with small plates and no reservations – obituary

Russell Norman, who has died suddenly aged 57, was an Italophile restaurateur who gained a reputation as “the coolest man in food” in the early 2010s as founder of the Venetian-style tapas restaurant Polpo.

One Bloodthirsty Edict after Another: Hindemith in Turkey

Given that he was excoriated by Joseph Goebbels as an 'atonal musician' whose work debased German womanhood, it is hardly surprising the noted composer and violinist found the general artistic climate in the Third Reich increasingly uncongenial. While his talents were greatly appreciated during the resulting sojourn in Turkey, where he was Kemal Atatürk's chosen instrument to modernise Turkish music, his was hardly an uneventful life