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Report identifies challenges facing UK music
UK Music has just released its annual economic report, This Is Music 2025 which outlines the huge contribution the UK music industry makes to the economy.
Extra funding for first new concert hall in 100 years
Scottish First Minister John Swinney has pledged an extra £20m towards the cost of building the first new concert hall in Edinburgh in a century…
Calling all TikTok content creators
TikTok and Southbank Centre have partnered to launch a new classical music program called Crescendo…
Thangam Debbonaire to head new opera trade body
Former shadow culture secretary Thangam Debbonaire is to lead a new trade body representing the UK’s opera sector…
Composer Adrian Sutton dies aged 58
Adrian Sutton, award-winning composer of the music for War Horse, the National Theatre’s play based on Michael Morpurgo’s novel, has died aged 58.
DAVID MATTHEWS: Opera, Symphony and Concerto
David Matthews has written so much music – 11 symphonies, 20 string quartets, and hundreds of other works – that it is hard to get a handle on his achievement. However, he has only written one opera…
AT THE OPEN DOOR
This is a generously filled disc of English songs embracing a period of over 80 years. Six composers are represented beginning with eight songs by Peter Warlock…
Obituary: composer Geoff Cummings-Knight
The composer Geoff Cummings-Knight has died at the age of 78…
A German in Whitchurch
As the glorious Llangollen Canal meanders through the borders of Cheshire, Shropshire and North Wales it touches the hidden gem of Whitchurch. Nicholas Keyworth discovered that it was here that the composer Sir Edward German was born in 1862…
JOHN IRELAND: Piano Works
This is a most rewarding issue from a leading advocate of Ireland’s piano scores, and one endorsed by the John Ireland Trust, who contributed to its production…