Why I’m less inclined to speak up in future.
Blistering performances from members of the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective dominate my first Lammermuir Music Festival experience.
With the Last Night of the Proms closing this years season, an opportunity to reflect presents itself. This season was something of a relief, pointing the way back to live music. The welcome return of an old friend framing the summer months with live performances from a range of different artists and ensembles. There is…
Professor Linda Bauld talks to Radio 4’s Paddy O’Connell on the risk of COVID infections at large scale gatherings as highlighted by early published papers from the Events Research Programme.
Charlotte Bray’s trademark musical language created a haunting atmosphere with an uneasy stillness.
George Lewis’ Minds in Flux performed by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra with Ilan Volkov was like stepping into an art installation.
Listening to the broadcast felt like earwigging a textbook Proms gig, the kind where excitement and anticipation spill out from stage and auditorium.
MPs can pack the House of Commons with no masks, but orchestras and choirs still have to be distanced.
“Bizarrely anachronistic”? Nope. It was fascinating.
Formalising what Thoroughly Good does, why it does it, and who it wants to do it with next.