Tag: Nicola Benedetti
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Inside Classical (BBC Four) and Nicola Benedetti & Friends (Sky arts)
A close look at two classical music broadcasts this Christmas — from the BBC and Sky Arts — examining audience behaviour, broadcast risk, and why linear TV is often misunderstood.
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The Benedetti Model: Leadership in Practice and Performance
Inside a values-driven programme that stretches across the country and highlights what the state still fails to deliver.
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Edinburgh International Festival 2024 – a ritual that unites us
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.
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Benedetti’s call to action
A timely reminder from Nicola Benedetti that we need resources not plans to create spaces that help people prepare themselves for the lives ahead of them.
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Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Nicola Benedetti premiere James MacMillan’s second violin concerto
James MacMillan’s captivating new violin concerto formed the centerpiece in a spectacular Scottish Chamber Orchestra concert at Usher Hall earlier this week, an event that demonstrated remarkable connection between conductor Maxim Emelyanychev and the SCO Dedicated to Nicola Benedetti and in memory of Penderecki who died in 2021, MacMillan’s one movement violin concerto was a…
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Nicola Benedetti’s ‘Baroque’ tops the classical music charts
Good to see Nicola Benedetti’s ‘Baroque’ album take the top spot of the classical music charts (Official Classical Artist Chart and Specialist Classical Chart) today. The album was released on Friday 16 July. News of Benedetti’s chart success comes at the end of a week in which she performed eight live concerts featuring excerpts from…
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Nicola Benedetti plays Baroque at Battersea Arts Centre
A concert format that works, introduced by a practitioner who knows her game and wants others to love it. CDs in the foyer folks.
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First selection of live events announced for 2021
A selection of (actual) live event announcements scheduled for the next few months.
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Nicola Benedetti, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, and Sir Simon Rattle speak to DCMS’ Oliver Dowden about the needs of UK orchestras post-lockdown
Sir Simon Rattle to DCMS’ Oliver Dowden: “We are poised and ready for collaboration, to urgently save our industry and its thousands and thousands of jobs.” I read Sir Simon Rattle’s Times interview first thing on Sunday morning in bed as soon as I woke up. Take it from me this is not the best…
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Returning to writing, content fatigue, self-care in isolation, Vaughan Williams and Benedetti’s Elgar
Identifying the recent blocks to writing, the challenges of creating content that will cut through, and managing oneself in isolation.