Labour cuts arts by 5%
Rachel Reeves has lopped 5 percent off the budget of the Department of Culture Media Sport and Digital, amid persistent reports that the entire DCMS is to be dismantled. It’s not clear how the cut […]
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Cambridge Summer Music Festival 2025: A Month of Musical Brilliance in the Heart of Cambridge
Cambridge, UK – June 2025 — The city of Cambridge is set to come alive with music this summer as the Cambridge Summer Music Festival 2025 launches an ambitious and exciting programme. Running from 2nd […]
Coming to a theatre near you
From next season’s offers at Battersea Arts Centre, south London: The World Premiere of EXXY by Dan Daw Creative Projects, co-produced with BAC Dan, a queer, crippled artist transports the audience to the Australian outback […]
From kazoo & harpsichord to large electronically-augmented ensemble: Alex Paxton’s Delicious on New Amsterdam Records is a multi-layered maximalist delight:
Alex Paxton: Delicious – Scrunchy Touch Sweetly to Fall (kite and finger run), Shrimp BIT Baby Face, Dadd’s Fairies, Justgum Friends, Spit Crystal Yeast-rack dripping (à lorange), Levels of Affection; Dreammusics Ensemble, Nouvel Ensemble Contemporain […]
New York Philharmonic – Sarah Hicks conducts John Williams’s score for Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
The Philharmonic wound up this season’s ‘The Art of the Score’ series performing alongside an HD presentation of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, the second installment in the original Star Wars trilogy. Set three […]
La Phil calls off concerts amid civil unrest
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All concerts and opera are cancelled in Graz
Yesterday’s school shooting, which took 11 lives, has paralysed Austria’s second largest city. All public entertainments have been called off this week, starting with Handel’s Giulio Cesare at the opera. Across the rest of Austria, […]
Window of opportunity: City Music Foundation opens applications for its 2025 programme
CMF Artists Connaught Brass City Music Foundation (CMF) is opening its 2025 programme to applications from Friday 13 June 2025, giving emerging professional performers across classical, jazz, folk and world music genres – both soloists […]
Esprit Submergé: French string quartet Page Blanche give the first UK performances of Luke Styles’ new string quartet
Page Blanche is a string quartet made up of musicians from the Orchestre de Paris, but with a twist they are violin, viola, cello and double bass (Joseph André, Flore-Anne Brosseau, Paul-Marie Kuzma, Ulysse Vigreux). […]
Schubert and Byrd at Wigmore Hall: Mishka Rushdie Momen impresses, again
Schubert, Byrd Mishka Rushdie Momen (piano). Wigmore Hall, London, 1130 am, 8.6.2025 Schubert Piano Sonatas: A minor, D 784 (1823); C minor, D 958 (1828) Byrd Prelude in A minor. Fantasia in A minor. I was […]
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