I Can Play with Brass Roots: Shepherd Brass Band and National Centre for Early Music win award for project enabling D/deaf young musicians to develop their musical talent
L to R: Charlie Coulson (Shepherd Brass Band), Audrey Brown, (Shepherd Brass Band)Cherry Fricker, (Executive Director, National Centre for Early Music) I Can Play with Brass Roots gained the National Award for Band Project of […]
Meet the class of 2025: National Youth Orchestra’s Illuminate tour with Ravel, Nielsen and Anna Thorvaldsdottir
National Youth Orchestra The National Youth Orchestra (NYO) opens 2025 with its Illuminate tour, when Jaime Martin will conduct the teenage musicians in Ravel’s Bolero, Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s Catamorphosis and Nielsen’s Symphony No. 4 ‘Inextinguishable’, with concerts at […]
A diversity warrior says classical music has not changed
A new front has been opened in the diversity wars by Kristina Kolbe, assistant professor in Sociology of Arts and Culture at Erasmus University Rotterdam and a visiting fellow at LSE’s International Inequalities Institute. In […]
Why new music is in trouble
We’ve just seen a report from Donaueschingen, the world’s oldest new music festival (if that’s not a contradiction in terms), dating back to 1921. The festival has been fading for decades. This year’s title was […]
Baltimore eliminates arts coverage
The Baltimore Sun today scrapped its features department, reassigning its remaining writers to the news department. This leaves the 30th-ranked US city without any reporting on its busy music scene, museums, galleries and performing arts […]