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The Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra closed the season with three chestnuts plus a brief new piece by young African-American composer Brian Raphael Nabors at the Shed on Monday.
Hear a leading musician open up a colourful selection of music from the inside.
The Scent and the Sound of Roses It is that time of year when I love to putter about in my garden, which somehow feels simpatico with the creativity of composing music. As a matter of fact, a number of great composers have loved nature’s flora and have responded in music. It would be lovely to explore some flower-inspired compositions, but we should first look at the soil in which they grow, the composers’ working methods. When you think about it, it is rather remarkable that flowers can somehow translate into music. To paint a picture of flowers is one thing, but it is quite another to t...
The Great Peter Bell at York Minster will toll for an hour before the Duke of Edinburgh's funeral on Saturday afternoon YORK Minster’s Great Peter Bell will toll for an hour on Saturday before the funeral of the Duke of Edinburgh - and the cathedral will hold a service of commemoration next week. The Minster has today announced details of its plans for further services of commemoration and thanksgiving for the life of Prince Philip. It said that at 5.30pm on Friday,on the eve of Saturday's funeral, there will be a choral evensong in thanksgiving, led by the Songmen and Choral Scholar...
Eric Wetherell, musical polymath who was a BBC producer and wrote operas and TV music – obituary Wetherell's father gave him a secondhand trumpet and the youngster taught himself to play it before doing the same with the French horn Wetherell: a raconteur with a fund of stories about musicians from his long life Eric Wetherell, who has died aged 95, was a composer, conductor, arranger and radio producer. His two operas A Foreign Field and The Snow Child, written in later life, gained traction, but he was never one to be pigeonholed, working across jazz and classical music, conducting orches...