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Celebrating the eclectic life of pioneering crystallographer Dame Kathleen Lonsdale: Electric Voice Theatre at Conway Hall for Bloomsbury Festival
“For a married woman with children, to become a first class scientist she must first of all choose, the right husband” Dame Kathleen Lonsdale Crystallographer Dame Kathleen Lonsdale (1903–1971) was the first female professor […]
Manuel de Falla, Bell’s telephone, rockets & Winnie the Pooh: The London Song Festival is ‘Reaching Out…’
E. H. Shepard – Illustration to page 3 of Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) Nigel Foster’s London Song Festival is back this autumn with nine concerts from 5 November to 11 December under the banner of “Reaching Out […]
The virtual orchestra: the Philharmonia’s new VR game allows participants to join the orchestra in a live performance of Rossini’s William Tell
Philharmonia Orchestra’s Virtual Orchestra: Play Along (Photo: Marc Gascoigne) The Southbank Centre’s Creative Intelligence festival (11 to 13 September 2026) takes its inspiration from the Festival of Britain 75 years ago by exploring how artists, […]
Madrid Conservatory String Quartets – wonderful music; wondrous playing
Here we have another wonderful string quartet which I had not encountered before – one which exemplifies supreme excellence in modern-day string quartet playing. The Seikilos Quartet was founded in 2011 within the Spanish National […]
Classical Music News
AVIE maps an American pulse before an autumn of contrasts
NEWS • 7 August 2026 • Source: AVIE Records AVIE Records has opened its late-summer schedule with Rhythm Nation, a new album from New York’s PUBLIQuartet that treats rhythm as a meeting place rather than a boundary. Contemporary commissions […]
LSO Associate Artists reshape the concert format this autumn
NEWS • 4 August 2026 • Source: Baxter PR / London Symphony Orchestra Three autumn projects from London Symphony Orchestra collaborators will bring choral theatre, multidisciplinary performance and orchestral jazz to LSO St Luke’s and the Barbican. Tangram and […]
£200,000 Wolfson grant advances Smith Square restoration
NEWS • 3 August 2026 • Source: Sinfonia Smith Square Sinfonia Smith Square has secured a £200,000 grant from the Wolfson Foundation for the restoration of its Grade I listed Westminster home. The award supports Doors Open: Transforming Lives […]
Join Us Wishing Our Managing Director A Very Happy 60th Birthday!!
Chris Caspell, 60 not out. Away from taxing matters, music is an important part of his life – as a viola-player, conductor, and entrepreneur. He also sings, mostly in church choirs, and, like Fred Astaire, […]
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.jpg?w=160&resize=160,160&ssl=1 "By turns ravishing & spine-tingling: period instrument orchestra Les Siècles is the star of the show in Berlioz's La damnation de Faust at the BBC Proms conducted by Jakob Lehmann")
