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  • Today's Birthdays

    Eugen d'Albert (1864-1932)Henry Wood (1869-1944)Margaret Bonds (1913-1972)Frank Wigglesworth (1918-1996)Martin Lovett (1927)Florence Quivar (1944)Robe

  • Music and movement

    The future must bring things which are considered blasphemous like... an atmosphere where people can come and go and even talk perhaps.. and certainl

  • BBC Proms 2010 post mortem

    It's less than a week since the Last Night of the Proms 2010, but already plans are in hand for next year and the next. Organizing a festival on this

  • F X Roth, Rameau, Canteloube, Henry Wood Prom 63

    François-Xavier Roth is creating waves because he's such a forthright personality, so individualistic. France seems to produce pioneers like this who

  • The Proms–Mosolov, Watkins, Cage, Cardew, Skempton, Feldman

    The Prom concert on August 20, by The Philharmonia Orchestra and Esa-Pekka Salonen, began with The Foundry (1927) by Alexander Mosolov. This is a fou

  • Angels and Demons Salonen Prom 46

    Esa-Pekka Salonen's daring. It takes guts to follow Mosolov's The Iron Foundry with Arvo Pärt's new Fourth Symphony, but Salonen rises to the challen

  • BBC Proms – a celebration of orchestral classical music

    Being the youngest sibling in a large family I was raised in a house where music was plentiful.  Influenced by the contemporary pop music tastes of m