Orchestra finds home in disused church

The Royal Northern Sinfonia has put on Michael Tippett’s oratorio in a performance involving amateur musicians and singers from across the North East of England. The idea is to underline the universality and topicality of […]

The New Zealand composer and musicologist Martin Lodge has died, aged 70, of a brain tumour. He advanced the study of Maori music at the Conservatorium of Music at the University of Waikato.     […]

We have been notified of the death yesterday of David Rendall, a dominant figure at Covent Garden from the late 1970s. Having sung solo in a Herbert von Karajan Bruckner Te Deum, he went on […]