National Youth Orchestras Kick Off Summer Tours… This month marks the tenth anniversary of the launch by Carnegie Hall of the National Youth Orchestra of the United…
Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra’s Drum Festival… Hong Kong Drum Festival was started by the city’s Chinese Orchestra in 2003 to ‘scare away’ Sars. Post Covid-19 the…
Costumes can’t mask musical wobbles in chamber… City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong, dressed as the players of Haydn’s 18th century patron Prince Esterházy would…
Listen to Eurovision winners Kalush Orchestra’s… Eurovision 2022 winners Kalush Orchestra have shared a new song – ‘Ushme Uturbe’. The track sees the Ukrainian…
Ukrainian orchestra’s key members refused visas… Key members of a Ukrainian state orchestra were refused visas to play a series of concerts in the UK this month in…
London orchestras show their sense of adventure… The bane of a composer’s life these days is the 10-minute commission, planned to start a concert on the…
Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra’s proud celebration… Forget the futuristic title “The Stage Door on Mars” given this production – it was very much a tribute to the…
Listen to Eurovision winners Kalush… Eurovision 2022 winners Kalush Orchestra have shared their first English-language track, ‘Changes’ – scroll down…
Harassment, hierarchies and discreetly rubbed… ‘They can’t all conduct, honey”, Lydia Tár informs her daughter as she hands each of her dolls a pencil to use as a…
Orchestras need maestros to make music… There is a scene in Tár, the Oscar-nominated film about a charismatic but abusive conductor of the Berlin…