Review: Music in the Burnhams
As I stood outside All Saints’ church at Burnham Thorpe, just before the concert started, a member of the audience commented to my colleague, ‘I bet you’d never heard of this chap Benedict before this festival!’
British Music in Bath
It may be unusual in a concert review to talk as much about the venue as about the music itself, but on 4 July, here in Bath, some remarkable British music was performed in a remarkable building…
Music for Margaret
Memorial concerts commemorating departed loved ones are no novelty, but it’s surely extraordinary to find a memorial concert featuring new pieces specially composed from 14 British composers…
Opera North: Black Spider
What more refreshing a way for a opera company to launch its new season than with a British work involving the next generation of singers, musicians, creative technicians and administrators as well as new audiences for opera…
Review: Opera North – Earth & Sky
A field of butterflies on the Pennine Moors, ethereal poetry and fascinating music in your ears as you explore the wild landscape above Haworth in West Yorkshire…
SAMUEL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR: English Composer
This book is probably best regarded as a short introduction to the life and music of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. It is written mainly from the perspective of Coleridge-Taylor’s status as a black composer in Victorian England…