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The Royal College of Music’s new laboratory can simulate a scary audition panel or a hostile audience — and calm the nerves that afflict the best players

'I Have a Dream: The Broadway Musical’ on stage in Chester

Happy New Year everyone! May your 2024 be bright and full of great music. The 2023-2024 music season has settled into rhythms and ways that resemble pre-COVID concert cycles and offerings.  For patrons of the Monterey Symphony, the Carmel Music Society, Chamber Music Monterey Bay, Ensemble Monterey and our other fine presenters, it’s a happy […]

The annual Christmas with Southern Voices concert was held at Chapel of St Cross in Winchester on a crisp winters night in mid-December.

There isn’t just one, so I’m suggesting a bunch here. The first two come from the English Group Polyphony, with two albums called O magnum misterium (note the middle English spelling) and A Christmas Present from Polyphony. You would never know what a wasteland much of 20th century composing was from listening to these albums.…

Celebrating the magic of the season is one of All Classical Radio’s most beloved traditions. Each December, our Program Director, John Pitman, selects twelve carols from our extensive Festival of Carols library for a deep dive into their origins. In 2019, we explored holiday classics like Hark! The Herald Angels Sing and O Tannenbaum, while 2020’s post delved into international...

GRAHAM McDONALD reviews the Canberra Choral Society’s "entertaining and varied" concert of mostly Christmas themed material. 

This Christmas, should you wish to buy the music lover in your life some of the best recordings of British music ever made, which would they be? Allow me to make a few suggestions.

Interview with Graham Rossby Bethany Tillerson (photo credit: Ben Ealovega / Graham Ross)This weeks guest for Preview! is Graham Ross, who has served as the Fellow and Director of Music at Clare College, Cambridge since 2010. Clare College Choir is renowned as one of the best university chora...

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