We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Life & Arts news every morning. Art music in the most literal sense: these are all songs prompted by paintings or painters. So Lucian ...

In a set of new bespoke compositions for saxophone, the veteran musician is best on the pieces that highlight his bel canto lines and soulful side The saxophone has always been a mongrel instrument – ...

This gothic song-cycle depicting the sinister 19th-century London of Jack the Ripper and the Tyburn public gallows – with music by saxophonist and Silent Witness TV composer John Harle, and main ...

Marc Almond calls his theatrical alliance with classical jazz saxophonist and composer John Harle a celebration of London and its dark history. The Tyburn Tree, named after the gallows at Marble Arch ...

Marc Almond and John Harle discuss their collaboration The Tyburn Tree; Liverpool's Everyman Theatre reopens; novelist Gary Shteyngart on his memoir Little Failure. Show more With Will Gompertz. Marc ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In a city full of memorials only an obscure plaque is spared for Tyburn gallows where as many as 60,000 people were ...

John Harle is credited with making the saxophone an accepted instrument in classical music and for inspiring composers such as John Tavener and Sir Harrison Birtwistle to write for it. He's also ...

Soft Cell front man Marc Almond has hooked up with award-winning saxophonist John Harle to produce a new album about the darker side of London. The Tyburn Tree features songs about the more ...

Little Feat were the quintessential multi-racial Americana band, developing a potent hybrid of rock, blues, funk, jazz and country which, thanks largely to the surreal beatnik lyrical genius of singer ...

In 2006, saxophonist Andy Shepherd famously opened the London Jazz Festival with a piece for 200 saxophones. This summer's City Of London Festival looks set to dwarf that achievement--with a ...