Elizabeth Atherton

Articles By Elizabeth Atherton

Monday, 23 September 2024 Read more...

How do you make a two-part final featuring five piano concertos work as a couple of totally satisfying programmes? First, give a wide list of...

Is it an opera company’s role to avert climate change? Should a circus troupe have to prioritize promoting the Welsh language? Is the purpose of a...

Apart from being one of Britain’s greatest songsmiths of the past 50 years, Elvis Costello – from the early adoption of the rock’n’roll King’s...

We were of course lucky to get this new WNO Rigoletto at all. If it weren’t for the fact that, in the end, the company’s wonderful chorus...

Somewhat amusingly, the sign outside Birmingham’s O2 Academy on Saturday stated that the evening’s entertainment was to be provided by “Frank...

White Roses, My God isn’t a Low album. It couldn’t be. Mimi Parker, Alan Sparhawk’s wife and partner in Low, died in November 2022. And...

As the name of a music genre, new jack swing was coined in an issue of the Village Voice dated 18 October 1987. Writer Barry Michael...

Robert Crumb puts America’s racist, misogynist Id on paper with self-implicating obsession. Terry Zwigoff’s 1995...

“Mozart, made in Manchester”, the project to perform and record...

Why do production companies think the world needs yet another reconstituted TV drama involving famous people in infamous situations? Newspapers...