James Inverne

IPO says farewell to inspirational Mehta

The conductor made a final appearance after 50 years at the institution

Fiddler in Yiddish is not for me

'We should celebrate our identity and our power of self-determination by learning our own ancient language, not a makeshift one that we pieced together from various countries to which we were exiled.'

Real offence of the Klinghoffer opera is simply that it's boring

Cultures that should not clash

Victors are not the stuff of art

Is The Hunger Games Inadvertently Mocking Israel?

When life resembles soap opera

David's lyre in a London shul

Artists are entitled to their views, but Nigel Kennedy should have kept shtum

Media’s trail of blood along the rotten path to stardom

Looking back at our history, with sadness and with joy

A poignant musical emigration