That’s when the Vegetable Orchestra was born. Now, some 25 years later, the Vegetable Orchestra has played more than 340 concerts using fresh carrots, pumpkins, leeks, parsnips, radishes and ...

That is the question most often put to me when I tell people I have been writing about a women’s orchestra which played inside Auschwitz on a twice-daily basis – and which saved the lives of ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspected a project to build a nuclear-powered submarine, state media reported Saturday, saying that "radically" boosting the navy was a key part of Pyongyang's ...

The China Yearbook, available in both Chinese and English, emerged as one of the highlights at the London Book Fair held from March 11 to 13. As a definitive chronicle of China's development, this ...

Bill Ashton, who has died aged 88, co-founded the National Youth Jazz Orchestra (NYJO) in 1965 and turned it into a breeding ground for musical talent, its alumni including the bandleader Guy ...

The orchestra’s history has always been tied up with its chief conductors who have included Wilhelm Furtwängler, Herbert Von Karajan, Claudio Abbado and Sir Simon Rattle. This mighty orchestra ...