Friday, December 28, 2012

Lesley Garrett to play the spy who sang to Hitler

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We interrupt the seasonal festivities to bring you news of a film in production based upon the extraordinary story of Margery Booth. An o...
Friday, December 21, 2012

JDCMB GINGER STRIPE AWARDS 2012

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Welcome back to the Cyberposhplace for the JDCMB Ginger Stripe Awards 2012! The doors are wide open, the candles are lit - but protect...
Wednesday, December 19, 2012

The trouble with sparkles

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T'other day I was out shopping when the girl behind the counter, returning my credit card, handed me a gift of a Christmas cracker cover...
Monday, December 17, 2012

Gabriela Montero improvises in memory of the 20 children

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Sometimes there are simply no words to express our feelings. That's where music comes in. In memory of the 20 small children and six adu...

Never fall in love with a musician...

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A favourite line from Humoresque : "A French philosopher once listed 300 different ways to commit suicide. He left one out: " &#...
Sunday, December 16, 2012

Gone Chopin, Bach in a minuet, but without Clawed Depussy

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I was once doing a talk and someone asked me whether there was any music I used to love that I had "gone off". The answer was twof...
Saturday, December 15, 2012

My message to you today is....

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Friday, December 14, 2012

Friday Historical: film of Alfred Cortot playing Chopin

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What can one add to that? Other than this: hearing Daniil Trifonov playing Prokofiev's Second Piano Concerto last night at the RFH l...
Thursday, December 13, 2012

A piano, alone in NY...

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This very moving short film is in the Op-Doc section of the New York Times website. Please watch all of it (5 mins). http://nyti.ms/QUxtcX
Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Save creativity in our schools - before it's too late

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Tasmin Little has been speaking at the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Music Education and sends these vital words about just how loudly w...

Farewells to too many people

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In the past week we have heard of the deaths of SIX musical legends. The beloved composer Jonathan Harvey (73). The marvellous jazzer Dave ...
Monday, December 10, 2012

It's Human Rights Day

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Of course, we shouldn't need one: every day should be Human Rights Day. Here, to mark the occasion, is a special video about how music c...

Solti remembered

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I had a long and fascinating interview with Lady Valerie Solti about her husband earlier this year and five sections of it are available to ...
Saturday, December 08, 2012

Bourne's Beauty blazes bright

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Now here is a cracker for Christmas. Some 20 years after choreographer Matthew Bourne (right) first leapt into the Tchaikovsky waters and...

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Friday, December 07, 2012

Everything you wanted to know about French 19th-century grand opera but were afraid to ask

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Robert le Diable opened last night and I think we can expect a few divisions on the topic. The singing is phenomenal - and the demands ...
Wednesday, December 05, 2012

Trifonov: Try Phone Off.

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One for the appropriate names department at the QEH last night. Daniil Trifonov , the 21-year-old Russian whizz-kid who has scooped top p...
Tuesday, December 04, 2012

KICKSTART YOUR WRITING is back!

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New year, new resolution: KICKSTART YOUR WRITING is back! I've designed this special workshop as a total-immersion day for anyone who ha...
Monday, December 03, 2012

A Diable of a tenor: meet Bryan Hymel

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You have to hear Bryan Hymel , the American French-style "heroic tenor" who's about to sing the title role of Robert le Diable...