The legendary actor tells Classic FM’s John Humphrys that she’s a big fan of classical music, and that learning an instrument is particularly appealing in the current climate. Dame Judi Dench is a big ...

As Praveen Kumar tells it, the Films Division documentary The Sax in the City is the result of “a childhood fantasy come true”. The director of the National Film Award-winning documentary on Madhubani ...

Curt Sachs in his book, 'The History of Musical Instruments', says, the saxophone “being intermediate between the timbres of wood and brass instruments, passes from the softness of the flute over the ...

HUMPHREY Lyttleton and Sir John Dankworth (I still can't call him anything but Johnny Dankworth) have been two of the most respected and influential characters on the British jazz scene. They are ...