Musicians often find Symonds' music technically difficult to play, but from the first rehearsal, he saw that the ASQ had taken his score "by the scruff of the neck" and that he had no need to worry.
Bertrand Chamayou talks to Clive Paget about a nine-year-old’s encounter with modern music and how to make bells sound like bells.
Lynden Barber celebrates a film about a child made for adults, and a new BBC series starring Nicola Walker and Sean Bean.
Musical theatre star Michael Ball discusses performing in Do You Hear the People Sing?, his new album with Alfie Boe, and his debut novel.
The hilarious new video game Trombone Champ will have you sliding from Mozart to merengue.
25 years ago, Dean Bryant picked up a copy of Larry Kramer's play The Normal Heart, about the AIDS crisis. He has longed to direct a production ever since. Finally, it's happening in Adelaide. He tells us what the play means to him.
Ahead of High Score 2022, composer Jeff van Dyck and orchestrator Nathan Cummins reveal the treasures they uncovered while recording the soundtrack for Submerged: Hidden Depths.
Festival Director Ian Cleworth discusses the inaugural BOOM! International Festival of Percussion, which celebrates percussive beats across the spectrum from cutting-edge art music to Afro-Latin.
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Seven productions from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden form the centrepiece of the new Palace Opera & Ballet season.
A new opera premiering in Mparntwe/Alice Springs follows a day in the life of the formidable Olive Pink.
The creators of three versions of Swan Lake discuss the ballet’s DNA.
Read an extract from The Northern Silence, a new book by Andrew Mellor, which interrogates the Nordic psyche and its impact on composers.
