Wigmore Hall’s £10 million fundraising success prompts a timely reflection on the role of music education in securing the future of classical music. John Gilhooly’s remarks highlight the limits of Arts Council England’s Let’s Create strategy — and where responsibility truly lies.
Amid AI fears and tech dominance, are musicians’ protests amplifying the right message?
Nothing is really off-the-record. Artists will need to be more on their guard in interviews, assuming they say yes to them at all.
Radio 3 preempt the RAJAR report for Q3 2024 with a press release that hints at figures that underline more stability than dramatic change.
Apple’s new chart of classical music consumption draws on data derived from its own platform.
The report calls for a more diverse approach to programming, but are there other factors beyond programming choices that contribute to this gap?
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.
In criticising innovation those who complain are simply reinforcing the need for the innovation in the first place.
There was a refreshing authenticity about him. What you saw on stage and on TV was, it seemed, him through and through. What a way to live a life.