Michael White’s classical & jazz news: Fresh Horizons; Black History Month; Stravinsky

Separate lives

Gripping drama Dear Comrades! revisits Soviet massacre

Slavery heroines

The Pointy Birds: rock bottom

The pick of a salute to fruit and veg

Graining champion: winning riffs on rice

Michael White’s classical & jazz news: Classics Explained; Gresham College; Anti-heroes

Lucy Popescu’s theatre news: The Red Shoes; Dancing Nation; Press Play Here; Lungs; Public Domain

Virtual: the new reality

Flock ’n’ roll! Bands play for the Lamb

Give peace no chance: how Hoover hunted Martin Luther King

The Grand Old Man of India

Lucy Popescu’s theatre news: The Girl and the Raven; Waiting for Obama; Overflow; Faith Healer

Tome time

Michael White’s classical & jazz news: Sir Simon Rattle; Stephen Hough; Raymond Yiu

GROOVES: Smith & Burrows; Inside Out; Sing For Freedom Choir; Celtic Connections

A fare of the heart

All The Vermeers In New York: tasteful portrait of 1990s Big Apple