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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…
New classical music festival launched in Wiltshire
A new ‘classical and cross-genre’ annual music festival has been launched in Wiltshire by conductor Hilary Davan Wetton and arts manager Julia Hudson…
Appreciation of classical music hits six year peak
The proportion of UK adults who enjoy exploring classical music at home has hit a six-year peak, according to new figures from the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra…
New book charts life of distinguished musician
In Time to Declare: My Life in Church Music, the distinguished organist and choral conductor Martin Neary offers an extraordinary journey through his life in music…
Choir of King’s College to release new Christmas album
The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, is to release a new Christmas album featuring a selection of arrangements and original works for choir and orchestra…
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…
THE SOUND OF HIDDEN MUSIC: Songs of Hubert Parry
n the notes which accompany this issue, the late Paula Fan, who accompanies these songs by Parry, makes the point that the composer’s reputation would appear to rest on a small group of works from what was a prodigious output…
LUCY WALKER: Choral Works
Lucy Walker is a young composer specialising in choral music and her work has been commended by no less an authority than Bob Chilcott…
THE LILY OF KILLARNEY
The works which give this issue its title give an indication of just how popular the operas were in the mid-nineteenth century…
THE SPIRIT OF LOVE: Chamber Music by Ailsa Dixon
The story of Ailsa Dixon is, sadly, not an unusual one. A composer of great promise, who happened to be a woman, had to be content with a scant number of performances during her most fertile period of composition…