Subscribe
from only £18.95 for six issues
☰
Counterpoints
Columns
Dispatches
Features
Civilisation
Art
Critique
Theatre
Music
Screen
Overrated/Underrated
Books
Subscribe
James MacMillan
Dancing to the SNP’s tunes
Scottish music and culture is playing second fiddle to an increasingly nationalist and socialist agenda
James MacMillan
Music
The therapy of forty voices
My attempt to emulate Tallis was initially terrifying, but now that the work is finished I am quite bereft
James MacMillan
Music
Music makes us socially mobile
Scottish nationalists seem out to destroy a precious musical heritage built up over many generations
James MacMillan
Music
In composer’s Sistine heaven
To hear my
Stabat Mater
sung in Michelangelo’s chapel was the high point of my musical life
James MacMillan
Music
A constant search for the sacred
Religion plays an integral role in modern music even when it is composed by non-believers
James MacMillan
Music
The ring of authority
Ernest Newman’s towering biography of Wagner helped to shape my own view of the composer
James MacMillan
Music
The quality of divine mercy
Look to Beethoven to answer Adorno’s famous post-Holocaust critique of Western culture
James MacMillan
Music
In search of perfect pitch
Many composers, including me, love football so much that we are inspired by the beautiful game
James MacMillan
Music
Sweet singing in the choir
Dumbing down church music and liturgy has emptied the pews. Our tradition deserves better
James MacMillan
Music
Psalms in Praise of Scotland’s Past
Thomas Wode’s part-books show the centrality of music in Scottish life just before the Reformation
James MacMillan
Music
1
2
Next »
Underrated: Abroad
The ravenous longing for the infinite possibilities of “otherwhere”
Stephen Bayley
Underrated
The king of cakes
"Yuletide revels were designed to see you through the dark days — and how dark they seem today"
Carolyn Hart
Food
A tripod in the sky
The view from above
Christian House
Drawing Board
Search
Search for: