BBCPhil/Storgårds / Park & Jupiter Ensemble reviews – stylish Strauss and lyrical Sibelius … and a lutenist’s singalong

Sueye Park’s poetic, enthralling Proms debut in Sibelius’s violin concerto was followed by an effervescent late-night concert from Thomas Dunford’s Jupiter Ensemble with Laurence Kilsby

Pass the pit diapers! Why are fans wetting themselves to stand front row at concerts?

Olivia Rodrigo, Noah Kahan and Morgan Wallen have all dealt with audience effluence in recent weeks – but that’s only one part of a fearsome subculture that has built up around fandom, endurance and ‘getting barrier’

Saxophonist Plas Johnson, known for solo on The Pink Panther Theme, dies aged 94

Jazz saxophonist – who recorded with artists Frank Sinatra, BB King and more – died in Los Angeles, reports say

We’ve been desperate for someone to take on Donald Trump. Who knew it would be Coldplay’s Chris Martin?

The World Cup left us with some surprising heroes. Kudos to pop’s leader of the bland and his very public rebuke to hatred and division, says music journalist Simon Price

BBCPhil/Noseda/Selaocoe review – a proms concert that was everything the festival does best

A programme – Bach, Beethoven and a Jessie Montgomery premiere – that looked odd on paper made perfect sense in the hall, with Abel Selaocoe a mesmerising soloist in Montgomery’s ‘These Righteous Paths’

‘His chords are like sheets of diamond ice’: the beguiling psych-folk of late cult songwriter Ed Askew

The late songwriter released around 50 records, writing gay love songs and effortless folk songs from folk’s fringes. Fans including Bill Callahan explain his singular brilliance

LA prosecutors present gruesome evidence in murder case against singer D4vd

Prosecutors seeking to try musician, born David Anthony Burke, for murder over death of Celeste Rivas Hernandez

Ariadne auf Naxos review – Laurent Pelly’s staging has plenty of wit but lacks weight

The director hits perfectly all the comic marks of Strauss’s opera about an opera, but there’s few insights in a work that should be moving as well as frothy and fun.

Spanish National Orchestra/Afkham review – Proms debut sees orchestra’s celebrations kick off early

Outgoing chief conductor David Afkham brought Spanish repertoire, castanets and a certain team’s football scarf in a programme heavy with national treasures

Shania Twain: Little Miss Twain review – rootsy revival strays from the dirt track to the middle of the road

The country legend’s seventh album revisits her troubled early life but plays it safe with zany humour and fluffy songs about young love

‘Everything I know about evil I learned in that small town’: John Carpenter on terrifying the world with Halloween, The Thing and The Fog

At 78, the king of horror and sci-fi movies is as much of a rebel as ever. He talks about creativity, compromise (he’s not a fan) and how he became addicted to moviemaking

World Cup final: Trump booed, half-time show and everything but the football – as it happened

The World Cup got its first half-time show starring Shakira and BTS, as Donald Trump attended his first game of the tournament – with mixed results

Amy Shark, stripped back: ‘Everyone thinks being famous is amazing, and it’s not. It’s quite ugly’

Ten years after Adore sparked a major-label bidding war, the Gold Coast singer’s fourth album ditches the pop production and the drums – and delivers the best work of her career

The Andy Burnham I’ve met over the past 20 years gives me hope for British politics

You hear the word ‘empathy’ a lot when people talk about our next prime minister. I can see why, says Guardian columnist John Harris

Bruno Mars review – half seedy club, half church service as diminutive singer answers fans’ prayers

Mars sings every line like it’s his big solo in a show that leans more on his stage presence than pyro and pageantry