Take five: strings from barbara hepworth’s bow

THE last specks of rain of the previous night’s storm pattered against the widow of the drawing-room. Meryl Stewart sat at the keyboard of her baby grand, working her way through the piano arrangement

At the magical Goodwood Art Foundation, a pineapple perches on a chalk bank, 16th-century music bathes an ancient copse and Rachel Whiteread’s cast of the underside of stairs climbs Escher-like into the sky. Charlotte Mullins goes exploring

Opera: The Queen of Spades/L’elisir d’amore Garsington ...

Maurice Ravel has been an enduring part of my world, both as a performer and teacher. As a little girl I played the Mouvement de menuet from his Sonatine at a piano competition, which the renowned pia

Exhibition of the week Ancient India: living traditions ...

Much about Henriëtte Bosmans’s life and music is remarkable. But one event stands out as emblematic of her character and strength. Our scene is Amsterdam in 1944, when the Nazis’ grip was on the Dutch