Guest Posts

As much as we’d like to, we can’t report on every classical music event around the world. That’s where you come in.

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Between Euphonium and Sheng
What Two Instrumental Traditions Taught Me About Listening
I learned ensemble playing through the euphonium. At Xinghai Conservatory of Music, breath, intonation and rhythm were daily disciplines, but the larger lesson was how to place one sound inside many others. A euphonium line can support the bass, answer
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All That Jazz and Chamber Music Too – Chatter Spreads the Word
Begun with missionary zeal as an informal gathering in a defunct Albuquerque gas station back in 2002, the Chatter chamber music collective — a unique network of classical and neo-modern musicians and composers — is expanding their latest ChatterPDX offering
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The War of the Romantics
The received wisdom is that Clara Schumann hated Franz Liszt: a rivalry, a grudge, an ageing woman’s bitterness toward a flashier rival. The real story is far more interesting: a friendship that curdled slowly, alongside an ideological war in which
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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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