The BBC Proms is the world's biggest and longest ­running classical music festival and one of the jewels in the crown for the BBC. It is one of the strongest b

“With their intellectual brilliance, humor and wonderful eye for detail, Leonard Bernstein’s letters blow all biographies out of the water.”—The Economi

The remarkable career of composer-orchestrator Robert Russell Bennett [1894-1981] encompassed a wide variety of both "legitimate" and popular music-making in Ho

WINNER OF THE ROYAL PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY STORYTELLING AWARD 2021 ‘Riveting, taking in prejudice as well as sacrifice. There are 4.30am starts, lost instrument

Features a complete account of the author's twelve-hour interview with Bernstein one year before the classical music personality's death in 1990.