Christopher Morley

Oh, the Proms overkill on the BBC. You can't get away from it. What if you listened to the First Night, and it's repeated this afternoon when you are hoping for something else? Classic FM, unroll the red carpet for me.

Why hasn't our pusillanimous government, probably in Netanyahu's pocket, publicly denounced him, and indeed gone after him? Have the Jews learnt nothing from what they suffered 90 years ago?

My report on the Gwyn Williams Bursary Fund concert at St Andrew's Church, Wilmcote, on July 20 is now up on midlandsmusicreviews.co.uk

My review of Longborough Festival Opera's joyous Barber of Seville is now up on midlandsmusicreviews.co.uk

Danny Kruger for Leader of @theToryparty -- sane, reasonable, temperate and unconfrontational . Also aware of previous failings.

I have just heard an announcer on @BBCRadio3 pronounce "gazebo" as "gayzbo".

My review of John Wilson's tremendous Rodgers and Hammerstein concert with the Sinfonia of London at Symphony Hall is now up on midlandsmusicreviews.co.uk

Thank you Sakari Oramo for getting the timpani grace-notes right at the end of Sibelius 5. So many conductors chicken out.

Our people are at risk because of the warmongering of Israel and its puppet USA -- and we, Trump's poodles, acquiesce.

My review of English Symphony Orchestra's CD of Elgar's First Symphony is now up on midlandsmusicreviews.co.uk

Is no-one willing to punish and repudiate the deranged state of Israel?

Norman Stinchcombe's latest CD roundup is now up on midlandsmusicreviews.co.uk

Don't you just love the Met opera broadcast announcers? They gush vapidly, and they bestow the title "Maestro" (mispronounced) on the routine conductor even before he's lifted his baton. Sorry, BBC Radio 3.

My interview with John Wilson prior to his Rodgers and Hammerstein concert at Symphony Hall is now up on midlandsmusicreviews.co.uk

Why is the world doing fuckall while Israel is killing so many innocent people? Remember the Nazis.

The prats who have squirmed their way up to becoming political leaders are now jeopardising the lives of all of us who have contempt for them. Is there nothing we can do?

ITV News has just told us the Blue Danube waltz was composed by Richard Strauss...

World -shattering premiere at the BBC Proms on July 25: Beethoven Symphony no.5 in C major!

Don't like the set-up at the RSC. Look at the various boards, stuffed with the empowered, the great-and-not-so-good, and all that bloody aristocracy. THIS is what the onanist Arts Council should be investigating instead of slavishly endowing.

On the recommendation of a composer I admire, I bought Stephen H. Smith's Albion's Glory, a Celebration of Twentieth Century English Composers. There are so many arbitrary, unsupported assertions in the first two pages that I cannot bear to plough through all 628.