Two Baudelaire performances
Two Baudelaire-related performances in 3 days. On June 10 Claire Booth gave the first performance of A Land of Rain with the BCMG and Oliver…
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10 Pig Songs at Magdalen Farm
I’ve been gradually adding Pig Songs each year for the Magdalen Farm Strings Course (2017 course participants pictured) and this year, the 10th anniversary of…
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Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen in Winterthur
Another weekend away – this time to hear the Mahler arrangement commissioned by the Musikkollegium Winterthur for Ian Bostridge. It’s for 12 instruments, and sounded…
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Barbirolli Oboe Competition, Isle of Man
I spent the weekend of April 1 at the spectacular coastal town of Port Erin, where the Arts Centre housed the competition founded by Evelyn…
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LSO Panufnik Composers 2017-18
The latest group of Panufnik Composers brings the total who’ve taken part in the scheme since 2005 to 75. Here’s a photo from the induction…
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