‘Everyone thinks because you’re in Mayfair it’s easy – but it’s not’

Michael White’s classical news: Imogen Holst; Gloria; Le Concert Spirituel; Elixir of Love

Voice male

Cutting comment

Michael White’s classical news: Herbert Blomstedt; John Tavener; Huw Montague Rendall; choral concerts

Green on the screen at film fest

Renaissance works…

Tales of Hoffmans

Mrs Robinson: loving picture of a woman who changed Irish society

Review: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, at Ambassadors Theatre

Lucy Popescu’s theatre news: Twelfth Night; Fragments; Sorry (I Broke Your Arms And Legs; The World of Yesterday

Grooves: Kate Nash; Kneecap; EFG London Jazz Festival; The Horrors

Beating the odds

Review: Jeremy Pelt at Ladbroke Hall, November 9

How Yari Club offers a glimpse of the future

Glass war

Review: Women Who Blow on Knots, at Arcola Theatre

Review: Wish You Were Here, at Gate Theatre

Review: The Buddha of Suburbia, at Barbican

Michael White’s classical news: Angela Hewitt; George Butterworth; Peter Tranchell; The Rite of Spring