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Go East Young Man – Jenni Roditi talks about her opera Spirit Child
London in May - the capital goes ’opera bananas’. The Royal and English National Operas mount their biggest blockbusters; the Covent Garden Festival plays everything from Handel to Sondheim via...
The Final Frontier (Max’s Ultimate Symphony)
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (Max) is finished with writing symphonies; his Antarctic Symphony is “a postscript to the other seven and I won’t do any more. It’s not because I’m...
The Royal Festival Hall – 50 Glorious Years
The Royal Festival Hall is one of the most important venues in the cultural life of this country. A fiftieth birthday is one to be celebrated (not that you would...
BBC Proms 2001
Yes, it’s the Proms again. Season 107 has 73 evening and late-evening concerts between 20 July and 15 September. Concerts are not produced overnight; therefore this year’s Pastoral theme wasn’t...
Ben Zander: Mahler 6 and the Philharmonia
Benjamin Zander is talking about how to perform the hammer blows that punctuate the huge finale of Mahler’s Sixth Symphony. “I think I’ve now alighted on a suitable method and...
Leonard Slatkin previews his 11 March BBCSO concert
Actually it’s not Leonard this time, but a stand-in! On Sunday 11 March, in the Royal Festival Hall, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers participate in Voices: Henze at...
At his Fingertips…
Whether giving your Harrods International Piano Series recital in the larger auditorium of the Royal Festival Hall, as opposed to the customary, somewhat more intimate, venue of the Queen Elizabeth...
Bohemian Spring Preview
It has an inviting title, the LSO’s new series of Czech music concerts, which opened last Sunday with Dvorak’s Stabat Mater, a curious choice perhaps for the curtain-raiser event. Different...
Henze: voice for today
whether in his forty-odd stage works, ten symphonies, five string quartets, twenty-plus concertos, songs and choral works, or the numerous other orchestral and chamber pieces that make up a truly...
BBC Symphony Orchestra Preview
On February 24, the BBC Symphony Orchestra will present a concert of three quite different works. This will be the first of my programs that follows the traditional Overture, Concerto,...
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