Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Is the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra a shining example of how music can lift underprivileged young ...

The charisma of Simón Bolívar emerges in the context, inflaming the population with speeches and writings of a patriotic and Pan-Americanist nature. Far-sighted and shrewd politician ...

The orchestra is renowned for its full-blooded performances, yet yesterday evening it felt that the stakes were higher than usual for the ensemble that first captured the imagination of British ...

Marianne Crebassa joins the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra, the London Symphony Chorus, and the massed Tiffin Choirs, with conductor Gustavo Dudamel in this performance of Mahler's exquisite ...

Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony and music from Dudamel and his orchestra's native Venezuela - an off-road trip and an odyssey across the entire country. Show more Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony and ...

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Simon Cowell has expressed that he is "devasted" by the impact of the LA wildfires currently roaring through more than 25,000 acres of Los Angeles County as the death toll reaches 24. The ...

Australian journalist and television presenter Simon Townsend has died aged 79. His family confirmed the news, saying Townsend had a short battle with an aggressive cancer. He was best known as ...

Simon Shuster is a senior correspondent at TIME. He covers international affairs, with a focus on Russia and Ukraine. For his first book, The Showman, he reported inside the Ukrainian President ...

As his 70th birthday approaches later this week, Simon Rattle — curly locks now snowy white — seems to remain in a perpetual state of self-renewal. The London Symphony Orchestra, where he is ...

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Saxophonist/composer Kevin Sun's 2 CD set, The Depths Of Memory, is said to be more suited to focused listening than to the “convivial distractions of a jazz club." That rings true. From CD 1's opener ...