Remembering the inimitable Jacqueline du Pré, widely considered as one of the greatest classical cellists of the 20th century. This year marks the 60th anniversary of Jacqueline du Pré’s Royal ...

British composer Edward Elgar wrote his cello concerto in 1919 — soon after the end of World War I — and it's suffused with the dark weight of that war. That in itself is noteworthy, because ...

In the mid-1960s, England was undergoing an identity crisis. For many, the death of Sir Winston Churchill in January 1965, commemorated with all the ceremonial grandeur of a state funeral, seemed to ...