The death has been announced, after a long illness, of the drum professor Martin France.
Using electronic and sequenced drums and percussion, France featured on more than 100 albums and appeared regularly in Hamburg with the NDR Big Band.
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Slippedisc, courtesy of OperaVision, travels to a European festival that is something of a hidden gem: Rossini in Wildbad in Germany’s Black Forest. Friday night’s production of Rossini’s sparkling medieval ballad, Le Comte Ory, includes […]
We hear that CEO Manvinder Rattan left the music education charity last week and a statement is expected shortly on the VF’s future. The charity’s accounts show it overspent its £430,000 annual revenue by £53,000. […]
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National Children’s Orchestras under 12 orchestra perform Shimmer and Glow at Portsmouth Guildhall, August 2023 (Photo: Vernon Nash) It shouldn’t need saying but it does, and there is a new survey to prove it. Yesterday, […]
