Our subject today is death and classical music. There’s a story, Jay Capperauld tells me, about Anton Bruckner that is frankly rather morbid.

The large, active crowd flowing into the Fox Theater on Sunday afternoon might well have been taken for a group of football fans waiting for the Super Bowl game to start.

Morihiro Hayashi's new manga Star of Beethoven debuted this week in Shonen Jump. But has it got what it takes to stick around ...