26th August: Proms row: Johnson calls for end to ‘cringing embarrassment’ over UK history, Pianist Josef Bulva has died, What to remember about Jean Castex’s announcements this Wednesday morning
Wednesday 26th August '20
Proms row: Johnson calls for end to 'cringing embarrassment' over UK history Boris Johnson has said the UK should stop “our cringing embarrassment about our history” and sing Rule, Britannia! at the Last Night of the Proms, …
Read14 August: Indoor music venues to reopen and The BR-Symphoniker look for a boss
Friday 14th August '20
Indoor music, theatre and performance venues will be able to reopen with socially distanced audiences Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that live indoor performances will be able to resume in England from Saturday, as lockdown …
Read18th March: COVID-19 – avoiding theatres is “crippling blow” to performing industry, Stage publishers demand financial support, conservatories are organizing distance learning courses
Wednesday 18th March '20
Advice to avoid theatres is “crippling blow” to performing industry, says creative head Without an outright ban, theatres cannot claim on their insurance. This is a devastating blow for UK performance venues, says creative head. Prime …
Read24th July: UK Music CEO urges Boris Johnson to avoid ‘cliff-edge’ Brexit, Warner Classics launches new website, The Palau de la Música…
Wednesday 24th July '19
UK Music CEO urges Boris Johnson to avoid 'cliff-edge' Brexit UK Music CEO Michael Dugher has delivered a warning on a “cliff-edge” Brexit, as Boris Johnson prepares to enter Downing Street as PM. In a keynote …
Read27th March: Karen Cargill remembers Maria Radner, value of cultural tourism to London supports case for concert hall and saving Gaza’s only grand piano
Friday 27th March '15
Classical News Guardian Maria Radner, my beloved friend Fellow singer Karen Cargill remembers a colleague – lost in the Germanwings disaster – who became so much more Classic FM Alison Balsom performs with the London Philharmonic Orchestra Star trumpeter Alison Balsom …
Read25th November: El Sistema: does reality match the rhetoric? Joo Yeon Sir wins £4,000 Karl Jenkins prize and Mayor Boris encourages advocacy for music education.
Tuesday 25th November '14
Classical News Telegraph El Sistema: does reality match the rhetoric? A new in-depth study paints a negative picture of El Sistema, the Venezuelan programme of musical and social education, devised by José Antonio Abreu, that is now being …
Read25th July: Lesley Garrett, the London Mayor and Classical Club nights
Wednesday 25th July '12
Arts Journal – Slipped Disc British Conductor, 45, dies after long illness Graham Jackson, a dedicated general music director in Krefeld and Mönchengladbach dies at the age of 45. Another Conductor drops out of the BBC Proms Conductor Thierry …
Read12th December – Tony Hall: “Am I worth it?”
Monday 12th December '11
The Guardian The best classical music of 2011: Fiona Maddocks's choice Amazing orchestras, opera premieres and Wagner in a Cornish church stay in the mind. Slipped Disc Mayor Boris promises better musical futures The fund set up by London’s Mayor …
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