Lauded as ‘Critic’s Pick’ in both The Guardian and The Times, the Elgar Festival is an annual live celebration of the life and music of Worcester’s most famous son and Britain’s great composer, Sir Edward Elgar (1857–1934). Set in and around the composer’s home city,...
BMS members can buy tickets for events at The London Song Festival Summer Series in June at the concession price of just £15. The festival features the following five concerts under the banner ‘A Feast of English Song’ at Hinde Street church London W1U 2QJ: Comedy...
Award-winning British composer Thomas Hewitt Jones has written a brand new hymn especially for the Royal School of Church Music’s Big Hymn Sing for Music Sunday. With words by Dr Gordon Giles, Canon Chancellor of Rochester Cathedral, Sing to the Lord, a new...
Ten days of concerts of beautiful music, programmed around themes of love, romance and Shakespeare are promised at the Summer Music in City Churches Festival. Hosted this summer in the historic church of St Giles-without-Cripplegate within London’s Square Mile...
Music at Stow has started a crowdfunding project for which they hope to raise £25,000 to fund a new grand piano which will reside at St Edward’s Church, Stow. Not only will a new instrument assist in bringing top class musicians to Stow for concerts organised by...
Our round-up of some of the music-related stories hitting the headlines in the past month. Making the arts more accessible According to the Guardian, Labour leader Keir Starmer has pledged to make the arts more accessible to young people from all backgrounds. In a...
