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SOLACE, escape and hope are at the heart of Ryedale Festival’s online Spring Festival, which marks the start of its 40th anniversary year. Seven inspiring performances, each approximately 50 minutes, will be filmed and shared over a week in early May, in collaboration with Castle Howard, the Yorkshire Arboretum and award-winning filmmaker Cain Scrimgeour, whose stunning camerawork will capture spring’s arrival in Yorkshire. To celebrate its anniversary, the festival will reveal 40 headline events in one-off, late-announced bursts, which allows it to remain responsive to the unique c...

2021-04-15T09:37:00+01:00 The Live from the Barbican series will be accessible online as well as for a reduced, socially-distanced live audience from 17 May The Barbican has announced that in-person tickets for concerts scheduled after 17 May 2021 will go on sale to Barbican patrons on Wednesday 21 April, Barbican members on Thursday 22 April and will be on general sale from Friday 23 April 2021. The spring/summer concerts of the Live from the Barbican series will take place as livestreams until 17 May and then continue to be accessible online for a global livestream audience, as well a...

Four music groups are inviting technology companies to help them reach new audiences, writes JULENA DRUMI Technology, already permeating much of our lives, is now being called upon to help four music organisations play a different tune. With the help of £80,000 of government arts funding, each one is seeking the support of tech-savvy entrepreneurs who can help them reach new audiences. Businesses that can provide the innovative, data-driven solutions the groups are looking for will each receive up to £20,000. Scottish Opera, the Scottish Ensemble orchestra, music venue Pianodrome and charit...

Last modified on Tue 9 Mar 2021 02.42 EST Mendelssohn called London a “smoky nest” but he was fond of the city, becoming a regular visitor, and a favourite of Queen Victoria. More interesting than a blue plaque, look for the squat sundial in Camberwell’s Ruskin Park honouring his popular Spring Song – written nearby – or the tree stump on a Barbican walkway, which tenuously marks his memory. (Both may have been removed as health hazards. Updates welcome.) One of Mendelssohn’s greatest calling cards – written when he was 16 – was his Octet, a natural and...

Clemency Burton-Hill to make one-off return to broadcasting Clemency Burton-Hill (Robert Shiret/BBC/PA) Clemency Burton-Hill is making a one-off return to broadcasting following her serious brain injury. The presenter will celebrate female composers, to mark International Women’s Day, while hosting a special episode of BBC Radio 3’s podcast Classical Fix. The podcast is part of a 24-hour celebration on Monday on the station, during which only music by female composers will be played. Burton-Hill was at work, aged 39, in New York last year when suddenly her speech started slurring and she ...