Composer spotlights, core repertoire, crowd-pleasing classics, and eyebrow-raising pop crossovers, underline a strategy focused on greater audience reach that overly stretches the Proms tagline about it being the greatest classical music festival in the world.
Andrew Comden takes up the role vacated by Roger Wright in September 2024
A leaked EBU white paper reveals plans to create a “super-league” of orchestras, empowering audiences to programme, and reintroducing live orchestras to Eurovision.
The 2024 Edinburgh International Festival, running from August 5 to 25, emphasizes audience engagement and affordability, featuring diverse music, theater, and dance, despite the high costs of local accommodations.
New presenters, specialist content moved later in the day, and a return for former Radio 2’s Friday Night Is Music Night
The BBC has announced that the BBC Singers will continue in its present form, its education and community engagement work now ‘supported’ by the VOCES8 Foundation. That a solution has been arrived at that retains talent, and sets up the ensemble for the future is fantastic for classical music in the UK, spurring on campaigners,…
Radio 3’s new station will offer music for those in search of moods and textures, who want to ‘de-stress’ and ‘escape’.
Riveting listens. Fact.
Taking music to different places. TTN’s new season branches out across the UK.
Sir Simon Rattle tells it how it is at the LSO/BBC Singers concert at Barbican. “So many of the problems are rooted in a political ignorance of what this art form entails,” explained Rattle, “and more worryingly, there seems to be a stubborn pride in the ignorance.” Testify.