The world’s largest arts festival, known especially for it popular comedy fringe, always runs a decent programme of contemporary classical music. Headlining this year’s events are tribute concerts to James Macmillan…
An unlikely link between Boris Johnson and Hans Werner Henze was pointed out on Twitter today: https://twitter.com/tomcoult/status/1152897958255480832?s=20 Sounds like a hoax? That's what I thought too, but you will find the…
Last year I reported on the work by UK record label Drama Musica and its project partner DONNE, Women in Music, who conducted a gender balance study of the 2018/19 orchestral season…
Boris Johnson today reacted to the EU’s passing of Article 13, its new copyright law designed to protect content creators, including composers: https://twitter.com/BorisJohnson/status/1110812485081333760?s=20 This produced a backlash from a number of…
Some inspirational words from the late lamented André Previn... https://vimeo.com/140204929
The death has been announced of German composer and pianist Helmut Bieler. He was 78. Bieler studied composition with Franz Xaver Lehner and piano with Friedrich Wührer and Aldo Schoen…
In 2018 C:T celebrated Leonard Bernstein’s 100th birthday; congratulated the many composers who received honours, awards and prizes; reviewed recordings; interviewed composers and mourned the loss of some much-loved colleagues. …
There have been some astonishing composerly revivals during the course of music history: Bach was underrated until Mendelssohn performed the St. Matthew Passion at the Berlin Singakademie in March 1829,…
Composer and academic James Wishart has died of a stroke aged 61. Wishart was a lecturer in composition at the University of Liverpool from 1980 to 2013. He was also active…
