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Read more about the article Art or status symbol? Some thoughts on that Guardian editorial.

Art or status symbol? Some thoughts on that Guardian editorial.

  • Post author:christianmorris
  • Post published:July 10, 2019
  • Post category:Opinion Piece

The arguments and rebuttals following the Guardian’s posing of the question ‘What is classical music for?’ (4th July) have continued to roll in. Best of the bunch has been Richard…

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Read more about the article May’s disintegrating Brexit deal: why musicians must get involved.

May’s disintegrating Brexit deal: why musicians must get involved.

  • Post author:christianmorris
  • Post published:November 15, 2018
  • Post category:Opinion Piece
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Over the last two-and-a-half years I have come to admire those people for whom Brexit is a turnoff. The mere mention of the word produces a glassy-eyed look, or, perhaps…

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Read more about the article Why Womad Matters

Why Womad Matters

  • Post author:christianmorris
  • Post published:August 8, 2018
  • Post category:Opinion Piece

If British musicians' Brexit frustrations have sometimes lacked focus, the furore surrounding this year’s Womad Festival has clarified matters a great deal. As mentioned in an earlier blogpost, the festival organiser,…

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Read more about the article Composer Competitions: Caveat Emptor

Composer Competitions: Caveat Emptor

  • Post author:christianmorris
  • Post published:February 8, 2018
  • Post category:Opinion Piece

After updating C:T’s opportunity page today, I came across this article by Norman Lebrecht over at Slipped Disk. It describes how this week’s Singapore Violin Competition has effectively been rigged, since the…

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Read more about the article Bingley Grammar School charges pupils for GCSE music

Bingley Grammar School charges pupils for GCSE music

  • Post author:christianmorris
  • Post published:January 11, 2018
  • Post category:General News/Opinion Piece

It has been reported that Bingley Grammar School charges children £5 per week to take GCSE music lessons after school. The decision was described by the Incoporated Society of Musicians as ‘shocking…

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Read more about the article Where are the competitions for older composers?

Where are the competitions for older composers?

  • Post author:christianmorris
  • Post published:September 28, 2017
  • Post category:Opinion Piece

I can imagine that the story of Richard White has warmed the heart of many a middle-aged (and older) composer. White has just had his 900-page opera selected for a workshop…

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Read more about the article What if East Midlands Airport had advertised for composers?

What if East Midlands Airport had advertised for composers?

  • Post author:christianmorris
  • Post published:September 24, 2017
  • Post category:Opinion Piece
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The latest request from a commercial organisation that musicians work for free has been given a withering response on social media.  The organisation in question was East Midlands Airport, who recently…

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Read more about the article Why we shouldn’t worry about the future of opera

Why we shouldn’t worry about the future of opera

  • Post author:christianmorris
  • Post published:August 2, 2017
  • Post category:Opinion Piece

After spilling more than a few column inches over the Tête à Tête Opera Festival I thought, today, that it was probably time to move on.  Then I came across…

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Read more about the article Music education is now only for the white and wealthy: a response

Music education is now only for the white and wealthy: a response

  • Post author:christianmorris
  • Post published:April 4, 2017
  • Post category:Opinion Piece

Charlotte C. Gill’s article Music education is now only for the white and the wealthy, published in The Guardian on 27th March has caused quite the furore. A response by pianist Ian Pace has…

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Read more about the article Promoting Women Composers

Promoting Women Composers

  • Post author:christianmorris
  • Post published:March 8, 2017
  • Post category:Opinion Piece

  Susanna Eastburn, Chief Executive of Sound and Music Today is International Women’s Day, which celebrates the ‘social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women’ whilst calling for action to…

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