Carlo Rovelli, the Italian theoretical physicist, is one of the great scientific explicators of our time. His wafer-thin essay collection, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (2015), managed to clarify the unsettling uncertainties of Einsteinian relativity, qu... See more
In the boiling August of 1919, a 27-piece African-American jazz outfit called the Southern Syncopated Orchestra was summoned to play at Buckingham Palace as part of a royal command concert. The orchestra was Britain’s first introduction to black music. Th... See more
In the boiling August of 1919, a 27-piece African-American jazz outfit called the Southern Syncopated Orchestra was summoned to play at Buckingham Palace as part of a royal command concert. The orchestra was Britain’s first introduction to black music. Th... See more
Gérard Grisey advanced Debussy’s sonic world - August 18, 2026 - Ian Thomson Debussy’s translation of the sea into orchestral sound provided a model for his later compatriot, whose spectral music created a new sonic world. Gérard Grisey was a French compo... See more
In Italy, family is reckoned to be everything. You might say the Mafia is a grotesque parody of Italian family life. Food comes into it. A Cosa Nostra clan is often referred to as a cosca, after the Sicilian dialect for “artichoke”: families are as tightl... See more
