Perfectionism in music is a modern scourge, and Peter Cropper, who died in May, demonstrated that it is a distracting priority for...

Charlie Chaplin was one of the most expressive and popular communicators ever. What can string players learn from his art? Light and...

Amid the commemorations of the start of the First World War, you might like a bit of respectful levity, so here is Charlie Chaplin's...

The great screen comedian was an accomplished amateur violinist who composed many of the scores to his films At the height of his success, Charlie Chaplin harboured a fantasy about his violin. In 1920, shortly before the release of The Kid, he told a journalist: ‘I once had a day vision. I saw at my feet in a huddled heap all the trappings and paraphernalia of my screen clothes – that dreadful suit of clothes! – my moustache, the battered derby, the little cane, the broken s

I came late to the Kleiber party – I was introduced to him only recently by Burton Kaplan while I was on his Magic Mountain music course....