Category: Opinion
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BBC Proms 2025: the ‘world’s greatest classical music festival’ knows what it is
📅 Planning your Proms 2025? Here’s where to start: the Thoroughly Good Proms Edit highlights big names, offbeat surprises, and must-hear performances: a guide to concerts worth attending or streaming in 2025 → get the guide A grounded season returns to the core proposition, making the music speak for itself Details about the BBC Proms…
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John Gilhooly, Wigmore Hall and the real future of classical music
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.
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Silent album bangs a drum for the plight of musicians at the mercy of ‘tech giants’
Amid AI fears and tech dominance, are musicians’ protests amplifying the right message?
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Opinion – Edward Gardner, Trust and Rules of Engagement
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.
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BBC Radio 3’s RAJARs Q3 2024: impressive gains or stable figures?
Radio 3 preempt the RAJAR report for Q3 2024 with a press release that hints at figures that underline more stability than dramatic change.
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Trouble looming for the Monteverdis?
Is there trouble looming for the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists this December? Their former founder and director, John Eliot Gardiner, is staging nearly identical concert programs with a new ensemble, right on the heels of the Monteverdis’ scheduled performances. By competing for the same audience, Gardiner (whose PR is now handled by Andy…
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Apple Classical Top 100 – the chart that classical musical lovers ‘deserve’
Apple’s new chart of classical music consumption draws on data derived from its own platform.
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Donne’s Equality and Diversity in Global Repertoire report highlights the ongoing gender gap in classical music concert programming
The report calls for a more diverse approach to programming, but are there other factors beyond programming choices that contribute to this gap?
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BBC Proms 2024 programme announced
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.
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The CBSO’s experiments with the concert experience
In criticising innovation those who complain are simply reinforcing the need for the innovation in the first place.