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Kicking up a storm with a baroque musical of Shakespeare’s The Tempest
Vache Baroque co-founding music director Jonathan Darbourne delves into the supernatural sounds and music of their new production with Out of Chaos. ‘This music crept by me on the waters’ (Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Act 1, Scene 2) Spoiler alert –
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Singing in the Shadow: Introducing the Song Pianist
‘You must have played well today, for I did not notice you.’ In his memoirs titled Am I Too Loud?, pianist Gerald Moore recalls the remark of famed (and famously egotistical) British singer John Coates, among many an anecdote from
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Preparing to scale opera’s Everest from a Sussex base camp
Brenden Gunnell finds a sense of belonging in England as he explores Midland composer Andrew Downes’s vocal music and prepares for the role of a lifetime, the ultimate ascent for a heldentenor By a circuitous route from the USA’s Midwest,
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Lessons in Longevity
75 years of King’s Lynn Festival
Having arrived as the newly appointed Festival Manager, I sat at my desk in the King’s Lynn office, surrounded by the cobbled streets of this historic port town, considering the legacy I now help steward. King’s Lynn is steeped in
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When the Obstacle Becomes the Music
How physical and psychological adversity shaped some of classical music’s most radical voices There is a persistent myth in the telling of great artistic lives: that genius triumphs despite its hardships. The more honest — and more interesting — story
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Elías Manzo Makes a Poised Carnegie Hall Debut
Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York — June 9, 2026 A Carnegie Hall debut is often as much a test of artistic identity as of technical accomplishment. In his appearance at Weill Recital Hall, Mexican pianist Elías Manzo
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Ethel Leginska: The Woman Who Rewrote the Rules
History has a reliable habit of erasing women who made their mark – and the history of classical music is no exception. Some were too inconvenient to remember. Ethel Leginska (13 April 1886 – 26 February 1970) was one of
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The Three Pillars of Western Classical Music
Bach built the architecture. Mozart gave it a human voice. Vivaldi taught it to paint. No single mind invented Western classical music. It was assembled across centuries — through faith, craft, theatre, and intellectual daring. But among its many masters,
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