Richard Porch reflects on the power of music in cities to transport the listener to other places
Some corner of a foreign field
Tim Finch explains why he is organizing a festival of Englishness in London today
Arts in Scotland have already reached an independent state of mind
Joyce McMillan explains why artists and writers at the Edinburgh Festival are not obsessing with the referendum question
Cardiff still needs to aspire to be capital of culture
Yvette Vaughan Jones assesses what has been achieved in the four years since Cardiff mounted its ill-fated bid
Edinburgh’s mix of culture and politics works for Scotland
Geraint Talfan Davies draws lessons for Wales from the Edinburgh Festival
Opera gives Welsh voice to world stories
Welsh National Opera’s mission is to set the enjoyment of opera within an exciting and stimulating intellectual context, says David Pountney
Whistling in a Welsh wind for a brand
John Osmond enters the fray over how best Wales can be projected in the world
Everything was better after a few drinks
Peter Stead examines the extraordinary continuing saga of Burton and Taylor, long after they first rose to fame
Live music must do or die
Jonathan Brooks-Jones casts an eye over a new report on a neglected Welsh cultural sector