Music

Outgoing president says the arts are more important than ever in these troubled times

Neglected works set to be broadcast on BBC Radio 3

Neil Gregor on the various types of orchestral life under the Nazis

Book of the week: Hillegonda Rietveld on the fierce creative energy of Big Apple clubs in the early Eighties

Emma Rees is happily lost in a Sixties’ soundscape but wonders why there are so few female artists

Hillegonda Rietveld on the consequences of a cultural shift from musical creativity to profit

Neil Gregor on a fine study of the ever-changing landscape of orchestral musical politics in Moscow

David Revill on a provocative and insightful work that explores our creative and ambient sonic environment and how we perceive it

Ken Plummer on a lively and provocative run-through of 18 major works by the towering figure of musical theatre

The creative industries are a good career choice now, and higher education should respond, says Anne Carlisle

A study of the Fab Four’s legal woes reveals their naivety and reads like a thriller, says Martin James

Students get a chance to develop a wide range of creative skills at the neighbouring world-famous arena

Drew Mulholland explains how his unique role at the University of Glasgow is at the heart of cross-disciplinary conversations

Martin James owes his love of writing, and his university career, to the late music legend

Writers meet musicians in the University of St Andrews’ new series of experimental conversations

UK maintains its strength in the arts while US loses ground

The new-look IMR aims to support and showcase studies across the musical spectrum

Kingston academic Will Brooker pioneers a new kind of immersive research

PhD student’s Anglo-Iranian composition to be performed at London opera festival

New principal sets out his vision for the institution

Hefce study shows 132 per cent rise in number of students reporting a mental health problem

Analysis by admissions service finds medicine and accountancy students emphasise career aspirations

Les Gofton on a compelling study of a musical subculture

News of the death of the iconic disc has been greatly exaggerated, says Hillegonda C. Rietveld

Andrew Blake appreciates a new view of the relationship between Empire and cultural hybridity

Does formal teaching of jazz contradict the improvisation that is at its core? Trevor Herbert examines the evidence

David Revill explores a composer’s symbolic musical remigration during the early Cold War

James Stevens Curl on the Egyptians’ concept of dual religion - an official, outer face and an inner, secretive aspect

An autobiographical tale of country music fandom resonates with Susan Deacy

David Revill tunes in to an ambivalence about capturing live musical performances

Anna Hickey-Moody on study of how performers have addressed disability in their compositions and performances

David Toop is charmed by an exploration of the pains and pleasures of the noises around us

Barbara Eichner on a different kind of biography

Mark Berry on what lies behind the modern reverence for Mozart’s music

We can’t hear ourselves think over all this music, warns David Revill

David Revill on diverse art forms that focus on, literally, nothing

Kate Kennedy praises a biography that examines the contradictory aspects of the composer’s character

David Revill on the creator of an unconventional musical genre

The medium and the music it made possible inspire a groovy kind of love in Les Gofton

Hillegonda Rietveld reviews a study of recording artists as cultural workers

Talking dust-bowl blues: historian and resolutely amateur musician Will Kaufman hymns the world of Guthrie and Steinbeck

Lecturer Rebekka Kill's love of DJ-ing and popular music led her to build links between academe and Britain's vibrant creative industries

Prog rock devotee Greg Walker takes an affectionate look at an intelligent and gloriously ambitious genre, and asks us to celebrate the era when rock's dinosaurs roamed the Earth