Charles Widor News Today

The weekend begins Friday next with 28 competitors each offering a 90-second snippet of song

The Duke of Edinburgh hated fuss, so the music will be based on the choir and organ sound heard in any parish church on a Sunday

The Duke of Edinburgh hated fuss, so the music will be based on the choir and organ sound heard in any parish church on a Sunday

New Concert Series Continues with Local Organist

Who was Lili Boulanger? To reduce Boulanger’s story to her Prix de Rome triumph and her tragic early death at 24, as so often happens, distracts from a serious consideration of her at times groundbreaking music, and an honest appreciation of her professional ambition. Boulanger suffered, horribly, from Crohn’s Disease but the dreamy invalid – an image cultivated by Lili, her mother and sister and lapped up by the press at the time – is nowhere to be seen in her ruthless determination fi...