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French Heatwave
Carl Grainger on the opening concert of the new Cardiff Season for the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. more
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Cardiff law firm pledges support for new music
The Cardiff office of commercial law firm Geldards has become a Commissioning Partner of the Welsh Sinfonia. A three-year programme of support will underpin the orchestra’s commissioning of a new chamber orchestral work every twelve months.
The Welsh Sinfonia’s Chairman, Carl Grainger, said, “We are thrilled that one of Cardiff’s most prestigious [...]
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Bryn and Wynne join forces for World Première
Eilir Owen Griffiths’ Requiem has been composed especially for a celebratory concert at Aberglasney Gardens with world-renowned baritone Bryn Terfel and tenor Wynne Evans, famous for his role in the Go Compare adverts. The concert is being held on Saturday 25th June 2011 as part of the Gwyl! Festival at University of Wales Trinity Saint [...]
Kissy Sell Out vs Stephen Fry
Is classical music relevant to young people today? Debate streamed live from the Cambridge |Union. more
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Jonathan Harvey on the future of classical music
‘Young people don’t like concert halls… and wouldn’t normally go to one except for amplified music. There is a big divide between amplified and non-amplified music… The future must bring things which are considered blasphemous like amplifying classical music in an atmosphere where people can come and go and even talk perhaps.. and certainly leave in the middle of a movement if they feel like it. Nobody should be deprived of classical music, least of all by silly conventions.’
This is composer Jonathan Harvey, interviewed for the classical music blog “On An Overgrown Path” more
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101 uses for a dead piano
An old piano becomes a one-woman band
BEAM is looking for sculptors, engineers, artists, musicians, architects and designers to get involved with a one day “SCRAP PIANO CHALLENGE” in the Royal Festival Hall Clore Ballroom. You will be placed in a team (or you can apply as a team of four people) and will be asked [...]
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A Time and a Place
Mark Eager, artistic director of the Welsh Sinfonia, talks about the orchestra’s 2010-2011 season.
Mark Eager
Our first concert season was very much about setting out our stall and, judging by our concert reviews and audience feedback, we have made a great start in our mission to be the professional champions of chamber orchestral music in Wales.
This [...]
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New funding for the North Wales International Music Festival
Artistic Director, Ann Atkinson (right), with Carys Wynne Williams, Arts Development Officer, Arts Council of Wales
The North Wales International Music Festival, at St Asaph Cathedral, has secured a £40,000 grant from the North Wales Regional Arts Lottery Fund.Organisers believe it is a reward for the “huge success” of last year’s event against all the economic [...]
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The Arts Desk at the Vale of Glamorgan Festival
Amazingly, the Vale of Glamorgan Festival has been on the go for more than 40 years, and has got better and better as it has gone along. Until recently, any kind of mould-breaking musical enterprise was likely to collide with the entrenched interests of the Taffia, the Cardiff [...]
