Classical Buzz
Welsh Week: Dinefwr, Adain Avion, Llangollen, BrynFest
Thursday, 28 June 2012
This Friday afternoon at five o’clock, the National Poet of Wales Gillian Clarke will recite a new poem and initiate a seismic week of Welsh cultural exploration. The inaugural Dinefwr Literary... Read more... |
Four Brits among 20 shortlisted for conducting competitionMonday, 25 June 2012Twenty young conductors have been shortlisted to compete in the Donatella Flick/London Symphony Orchestra Conducting Competition in late September. The top prize is a cash award of £15,000 and an... Read more... |
Arise, Sir Kenneth Branagh and Dame Zaha Hadid
Saturday, 16 June 2012
Zaha Hadid, visionary architect of the London Olympics Aquatic Centre, becomes a Dame and three new knights of the arts are created in the Queen's Jubilee Birthday Honours announced this morning.... Read more... |
The best and worst national anthems? Time to award the medals
Sunday, 15 April 2012
The onerous task of recording all 205 national anthems for playing at the Olympics medal ceremonies has fallen on the London Philharmonic Orchestra. An edited group of 36 players has recorded the... Read more... |
Captain Scott's Desert Island Discs
Wednesday, 11 April 2012
Centenaries are sizeable business in 2012. It just so happens that the Olympics are coming to the United Kingdom for the third time in a year which finds us thinking very hard if being British still... Read more... |
YouTube hoaxer makes a very convincing Mozart
Saturday, 07 April 2012
Norman Lebrecht, the seasoned and ever-alert musical commentator, thinks he and his readers may have uncovered someone making a very good stab at being Mozart. Three pieces have been discovered on... Read more... |
Cash for arts: should it be bums-per-pound or pounds-per-bum?
Saturday, 31 March 2012
The organisation that channels public money to generate today's new classical music has been resoundingly condemned this week by all of Britain's most important composers. In an open letter, signed... Read more... |
Bach Cantatas: celeb seeks crowd-funding
Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Fancy buying a new recording of Bach’s Cantatas? It’ll cost only slightly more than a regular CD. The only snag is it hasn’t been recorded yet, which is where you come in.Over the last few years Sir... Read more... |
Sport and classical music: they should hang out more
Wednesday, 22 February 2012
Classical music and sport: should they spend more time together? The idea was posited more than 20 years ago that football and opera made for ideal bedfellows, so long as the football was being... Read more... |
No go Glasgow's SNO Maiden
Thursday, 08 December 2011
The Royal Scottish National Orchestra's Glasgow concert tonight has had to be cancelled because of what my Scots godson, in far less extreme conditions down in the Borders, once described as "... Read more... |
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