Remembering the inimitable Jacqueline du Pré, widely considered as one of the greatest classical cellists of the 20th century. This year marks the 60th anniversary of Jacqueline du Pré’s Royal ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When Hilary and Jackie, the biopic about the British cellist Jacqueline du Pré, came out in 1998, it intrigued ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Never shy of tackling complex stories, Cathy Marston has attempted to tell the life and tragically short career ...

Proud, diffident, exuberant, reserved – all those words the English once used of themselves became freely associated with both performer and work, the two almost indistinguishable from one another in ...

Choreographed by Cathy Marston, the Royal Ballet’s upcoming production celebrates the life and many loves of the virtuoso cellist as she battled with multiple sclerosis. The Royal Ballet has announced ...

MANILA, Philippines - The film impact of Shine and Hilary & Jackie was revealing even among non-music aficionados. Perhaps one way to improve musical education in this country is to expose both young ...

Richard Strauss, “Don Quixote” and “Tod und Verklaerung” (“Death and Transfiguration”), performed by the MET Orchestra, James Levine conducting and (in “Don Quixote”) cellist Jerry Grossman, violist ...

I received very sad news on Sept. 8. Queen Elizabeth II passed away at Balmoral. She was 96 years old. This year is the queen’s platinum jubilee, marking the 70th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth ...

Cathy Marston has spent her career pushing at the kinds of stories ballet can tell. The Cellist, her new work for The Royal Ballet, is based on the life of Jacqueline du Pré, from spectacular early ...

Jacqueline du Pré’s offstage persona was irreverent, kind and compassionate. She had a mind that was both keenly intelligent and relentlessly curious. Onstage she was known to give everything to the ...

Miriam Margolyes has defended her controversial claim that tragic cellist Jacqueline du Pre died from lethal injection in an assisted suicide. The veteran actress, 80, likely best known for playing ...