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‘The Consummate Communicator’: Malcolm Arnold Festival 2018

2018-10-01
On: October 1, 2018
In: Previews

Running from 13-14 October 2018, the weekend will include music from the worlds of ballet, cinema, television and radio, opera, brass band and the concert hall, as well as films and talks on the composer and his music.Read More →

Royal Birmingham Conservatoire celebrates 150th anniversary of Sir Granville Bantock

2018-09-19
On: September 19, 2018
In: Previews

To mark the 150th birthday of Sir Granville Bantock, pianist Maria Marchant will present a lunchtime recital of his keyboard music on 2 October.Read More →

(c) Benjamin Ealovega

June 2018 picks: the best classical concerts this month

2018-05-31
On: May 31, 2018
In: Previews

Festivals celebrating the music of Sir Edward Elgar and Sir Arnold Bax; a nautical evening at Chatham’s cathedral to shipbuilding; and Noye’s Fludde at 60.Read More →

‘David Matthews in the Heart of England’: celebrating the composer’s 75th birthday

2018-05-31
On: May 31, 2018
In: Previews

To celebrate the 75th birthday of British composer David Matthews, the English Symphony Orchestra and Orchestra of the Swan are joining forces with venues and festivals across the Midlands for a year-long project entitled ‘David Matthews in the Heart of England’.Read More →

May picks: the best classical concerts this month

2018-05-02
On: May 2, 2018
In: Previews

Hubert Parry centenary, the Festival of English Music, Northern Chamber Orchestra at 50.Read More →

April picks: the best classical events this month

2018-04-08
On: April 8, 2018
In: Previews

Sir Andrew Davis conducts The Spirit of England; Mark Bebbington introduces his new recording of Delius’s Piano Concerto; and the LSO’s discovery day on Sir Michael Tippett.Read More →

Programme announced for 2018 English Music Festival

2018-03-15
On: March 15, 2018
In: Previews

Running from 25 – 28 May 2018, the festival will commemorate the centenary of the end of the first world war and pay homage to composer and suffragette Ethel Smyth in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Representation of the People Act.Read More →

March picks: the best classical events this month

2018-02-25
On: February 25, 2018
In: Previews

Thea Musgrave 90th birthday concert; world premiere of Philip Sawyers’s new tone poem; LSO Singing day on Tippett’s ‘A Child of Our Time’.Read More →

Study day: new perspectives on the music of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies

2018-02-20
On: February 20, 2018
In: Previews

Canterbury Christ Church University’s School of Music and Performing Arts is organising a conference on the music of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, to take place from Friday 2 to Saturday 3 March 2018.Read More →

February picks: the best classical events this month

2018-02-01
On: February 1, 2018
In: Previews

Finzi’s Cello Concerto, the LSO’s Elgar Discovery Day, and a centenary lecture on Sir Hubert Parry at the Royal College of MusicRead More →

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