BEN LUNN draws attention to the way cultural expressions of solidarity with Palestinians in the UK are being censored by Israeli-sponsored lawfare

BEN LUNN reports from a new music festival in New York, and singles out a breathtaking composition that protests directly against femicide in Mexico

The centenary of his birth is a chance to assess the remarkable combination of Marxism, activism and modernism in the works of Luigi Nono

As the debate around voluntary euthanasia returns, we now have some seriously disturbing evidence from those places where it has become recently legalised to convince us that Britain is not ready, argues BEN LUNN

BEN LUNN argues that opera has long been an arena of radical ideas and music and shouldn't be an art form lost to the wealthy

BEN LUNN remembers the Italian composer Luigi Dallapiccola, whose embrace of serialism and the 12-tone scale coincided with his rejection with fascism

BEN LUNN reviews an afternoon with the champion of Scotland’s composers

Time to celebrate Gustav Holst, an innovator who helped bring brass band instruments into the orchestra and wrote for working-class musicians

BEN LUNN singles out the remarkable swansong of Kaija Saariaho, and James Weeks’ monumental feat of social organisation

A properly funded arts strategy is needed to create the infrastructure for creative industry to grow, argues BEN LUNN

In today’s Britain musicians, like cicadas, lesser spotted woodpeckers or hedgehogs, are rapidly becoming an endangered species

BEN LUNN celebrates the ongoing mission of the WMA Summer School to make music-making accessible to working-class people

BEN LUNN urges artists to express solidarity when threatened by cancel culture

BEN LUNN draws attention to the desperate straits into which classical music is being pushed by a hack-and-slash government that cares nothing for the culture of the working class

BEN LUNN pleads for a more visionary agenda than simply resisting cuts

BEN LUNN decodes the misleading rhetoric by which the BBC masks a philistine Tory agenda in the arts

BEN LUNN celebrates the beautiful and subversive music of Eddie McGuire

On the revolutionary value of personal integrity in an English composer of the late Renaissance

Tone-deaf budget embarrasses and insults in equal measure

New releases from Alex Paxton, Spaces Unfolding and Mihailo Trandafilovski

The Tory slash-and-burn approach to the arts poses deathly threat to some of the most revered institutions in this country

Musings on the role of music at the royal funeral and how a democratisation of this art form should have our highest concern as the nations' cultural landscapes depend on it

The edifying spirit of the Workers’ Music Association (WMA) Summer School remains intact as it returns after the pandemic

New releases from Bryn Harrison, Matthew Whiteside and Sylvia Lim

BEN LUNN pays tribute to Accrington-born giant Harrison Birtwhistle – but wonders if working-class kids today have the opportunity to explore music that he did

We cannot allow culture be used to widen the divide, to transform Russians into non-European savages, while painting all Ukrainians blindly as heroic martyred defenders of Europe, writes BEN LUNN

Activist BEN LUNN looks at the three contenders to lead Britain’s 30,000-strong Musicians Union

Arnold Schoenberg’s music is much like whisky, the first try is rarely fun, however the richness is eventually enjoyed when you stick with it

New releases from iyatra Quartet, Various Artists (Between Music and Ritual) and Yannick Nezet-Seguin and The Philadelphia Orchestra

BEN LUNN: Marxist notes on Music

Glasgow Cathedral Festival 2021

Arts that fight with humanity, and for the broadest amount of humanity, demonstrate we as humans have more in common with each other, writes BEN LUNN

The 'hear nothing, see nothing and say nothing' approach to misogyny in classical music institutions shames us all, writes BEN LUNN