Other lives: BBC director who masterminded broadcasts of the Last Night of the Proms
December 2019
Herbert Chappell obituary
Director and composer for television best known for producing the Three Tenors from the Baths of Caracalla in Rome
May 2016
Other lives
John Evans obituary
Other lives: Classical music scholar and producer for BBC Radio 3
April 2016
Music blog
Menuhin: 100 facts to celebrate his centenary
Friday 22 April is the centenary of Yehudi Menuhin’s birth. His biographer has compiled for us a list of 100 facts about the great musician and his musical legacy.
September 2015
Letter: Claus Moser’s lifelong passion was music
Humphrey Burton writes: Claus Moser had a wide circle of true friends, many of them drawn from politics and university life, but his lifelong passion was music
May 2015
Other lives
Lord Birkett obituary
Other lives: Key figure in the world of British cinema and theatre across three decades
April 2015
Dennis Marks obituary
Maker of music documentaries for TV and radio who had a passion for opera
January 2015
Nancy Thomas obituary
TV producer who worked with David Attenborough and Patrick Moore and was a significant influence on BBC arts programming
July 2011
Appreciation: Leo Kirch
William Mostyn-Owen obituary
May 2011
Jack Gottlieb obituary
Composer, musician and right-hand man to Leonard Bernstein
January 2011
Bernstein's A Quiet Place: silence is golden
It's been a long road to the New York stage for Bernstein's opera A Quiet Place, but has its moment finally come, asks Humphrey Burton
September 2010
Jack Phipps obituary
Farsighted champion of music and theatre
February 2010
Margaret Dale obituary
Admired ballerina with a mission to bring great dancing to the small screen
September 2009
Lenny and me: memories of Bernstein
He made his name with West Side Story, but Leonard Bernstein was also one of the 20th century's greatest music teachers. This, says his friend and colleague Humphrey Burton, is his greatest legacy
September 2006
Sir John Drummond
John Drummond
July 2003
John Schlesinger
John Schlesinger's work as a maker of documentaries received disappointingly short shrift in your otherwise admirable account of his work as a film-maker.
February 2003
Lady Menuhin
Gifted dancer who complemented the life of her brilliant husband.
