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2024-03-11 08:14:00
BBC Ten Pieces celebrated its 10th anniversary last week by announcing a new collection of ten works by women composers across eight centuries.
Sally Beamish, Hildegard von Bingen, Margaret Bonds, Lili Boulanger, Reena Esmail, Cassie Kinoshi, Marianna Martines, Laura Shigihara, Errollyn Wallen, Judith WeirBuilding on ten years opening up the world of classical music to 7-14 year Olds, BBC music education initiative Ten Pieces celebrated its 10th anniversary last week by announcing a new collection of ten works by women composers across eight centuries. The selection features a broad range of orchestral, vocal and gaming music by Sally Beamish, Hildegard von Bingen, Margaret Bonds, Lili Boulanger, Reena Esmail (BBC commission), Cassie Kinoshi (a BBC/ABRSM/Music For Youth co-commission), Marianna Martines, Laura Shigihara, Errollyn Wallen, and Master of the King’s Music Judith Weir.Nine of the ten pieces were featured across the BBC Radio 3 schedule on Friday 8 March as part of its International Women’s Day celebrations, when the station marked the occasion with 24 hours of music only by women composers.BBC Ten Pieces aims to open up the […]
2023-10-10 06:41:00
John Findon takes the title role in ENO's magnificent revival of David Alden's production of Britten's Peter Grimes
Britten: Peter Grimes - English National Opera (Photo: Tom Bowles)Britten:Peter Grimes; John Findon, Elizabeth Llewellyn, Simon Bailey, Christine Rice, director: David Alden, Martyn Brabbins; English National OperaReviewed by Tony Cooper, 6 October 2023David Alden’s production of Britten’s Peter Grimes has been a big success for English National Opera. A five-star job, really, long may it stay in the repertoireDue to the unavailability of Gwyn Hughes Jones, the pivotal role of Peter Grimes fell to British tenor, John Findon, who fitted so well the sea boots of this lone and anguished fisherman. Partly written in America during the Second World War where Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears were escaping war-torn Britain on a pacifist ticket, Peter Grimes was premièred by Sadler’s Wells Opera (later to become English National Opera) at Sadler’s Wells Theatre, Islington, on 7 June 1945, conducted by Reginald Goodall with Peter Pears in the title-role. First seen in […]
2023-09-15 07:55:00
Music for youth: young bassoonists, an early-career organist and free concerts for Secondary Schools
Rising start organist Matthew Walters is the first Associate Artist at Fairfield Halls, the Royal College of Music is launching a free Young Bassoon Programme whilst the Liverpool Philharmonic is offering free concert tickets to local Secondary Schools.23-year-old rising star organist Matthew Walters has been appointed the first Associate Artist at Fairfield Halls in Croydon to launch the venue’s new Associate Artists programme which will support early-career performers and artists whilst further expanding the cultural offering for Croydon. Walters' residency at Fairfield will include playing two lunchtime organ recitals, as well as his own headline concert in the 2023-24 season. For his debut concert on 26 November, he will play music from Bach to Buxtehude, along with new works and improvisations including the sounds of iconic film soundtracks and mashups featuring contemporary popular music. He will perform also alongside the halls’ resident orchestra, the London Mozart Players (LMP) in A Very Croydon Christmas […]
2023-07-20 09:51:11
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