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Image: Repton School A spotlight on how Repton School has helped former student Matthew Rhodes to make the most of musical opportunities. We often use the words ‘talent’ and ‘skill’ interchangeably, thinking of these as innate gifts that we are born with – but they are in fact different from one another. While talent does indeed refer to natural aptitudes, skills are learnt abilities that we develop with time, effort, and the right coaching from the right teachers. Having said that, talent and skill do usually go hand in hand – good teachers recognise talent in their students and ...

Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera. Starring Aprile Millo, Harolyn Blackwell, Florence Quivar, Luciano Pavarotti, and Leo Nucci, conducted by James Levine. From January 26, 1991. View here and for 24 hours. ** Wagner’s Das Rheingold. Conductor: Adam Fischer, director: Sven-Eric Bechtolf. With Tomasz Konieczny, Norbert Ernst, Jochen Schmeckenbecher, Herwig Pecoraro, and Michaela Schuster. Production from January 2016. Register for free and view here.  Sunday, January 3 Handel’s Semele. First streamed on OperaVision at its premiere in Berlin on May 12, 2018. Barrie Kosky’s production retu...

(3 out of 5 stars) "I've been able so far to remain immune of the Gojilov disease - it hasn't struck Europe as hard as it has the Americas. This collaboration with the Kronos Quartet, dating back from 1996, is one of the events that made him hot stuff in town. I've been listening to recordings of The Kronos Quartet - they were the early champions of those crossover experiences that had them either playing arrangements of Jazz (Thelonius Monk Monk Suite, Bill Evans Music of Bill Evans, Ornette Coleman in White Man Sleeps, John Lurie and John Zorn in Kronos Quartet : Winter Was Hard) or pop (H...

3 pm ET: London Philharmonic Orchestra presents All the World’s a Stage. The LPO celebrates Brett Dean, their new Composer in Residence, with the UK premiere of The Players. The scene is Elsinore, setting of Dean’s opera Hamlet, with the solo role played by accordion player James Crabb. The concert begins with Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 and ends with Stravinsky’s mock-Baroque Pulcinella. View here.  6 pm ET: Philadelphia Chamber Music Society presents Mark Steinberg, Marcy Rosen, and Jonathan Biss play Beethoven. Celebrate Beethoven’s 250th birthday as three chamber mu...

(Pocket-lint) - Apple Music has a whole raft of content to celebrate Beethoven's 250th birthday. As well as exclusive music, playlists and information, the music service has teamed up with renowned artist David Hockney to create the above exclusive artwork. And, yes, being a partnership with Apple means it was created on an iPad Pro with Apple Pencil.  You can see a timelapse of how Hockney created the image on this Apple Music page, which is where you can see all the content around the anniversary.  Hockney said: "I have always been an admirer of Beethoven’s work which is why I chose to ...