Clive Bell ponders the fragmented London music audience

Clive Bell on the recent furore over Sam Callow's accompaniments to traditional British folk singers.

“We have, at the present time, a destruction taking place, in and of nature, unprecedented in history..."

Philip Clark visits the Proms and witnesses a clash between New Music and the fancy-dress patriotism of populist classical music culture.

Clive Bell on the continuing appeal of the music box, from inventive Polish packaging, high street trinkets and grown up toys like the German Polyphon.

Philip Clark asks why London has always been "re" rather than "pro" active towards trends in composed music.

In his first column for The Wire online, Philip Clark looks at unhinged egos, unanswered emails and other occupational hazards of life as a working composer – and musicians who don't want to be noticed.

Clive Bell on the recent glut of monumentally proportioned music, and imagining the person who forks out hard-earned cash for an "obese release"

In the first of a new series of columns written for thewire.co.uk, Clive Bell pitches an imaginary book about Westerners who rewired World Music as if they were saving the whale.