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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Joanne Gill’s new commission, A Song Of Thanksgiving And Dedication, set in the Doric language spoken in the north-east of Scotland, will be performed by Scottish mezzo-soprano singer and Scottish National Girls’ Choir Patron Karen Cargill and instrumentalists and composers The Ayoub Sisters. … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The Assistant Organist played Voices of the World, a new commission from Iain Farrington which brings together traditional tunes from across the Commonwealth family of nations. The orchestra then played the Coronation March, written especially for today by the Scottish film composer Patrick … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE In addition to its use on official occasions, the anthem is also less well known in the concert hall. Beethoven used it in perhaps his worst work, Wellington’s Victory. The “demon violinist” Paganini based a series of variations on it, as did the … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Read Simon Rattle’s damning speech on “BBC vandalism cutting into the flesh of our culture”. MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE We never knew what to make of Franz Liszt. Yes, he was a stunning virtuoso pianist, probably the greatest who ever lived. Yes, he was a giant of the Romantic era and during his tours in the 1830s he could claim to be … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Dunedin Consort, Wigmore Hall ★★★★☆ Leaving the Hogmanay celebrations at their base in Edinburgh, the Dunedin Consort spent New Year’s Eve at London’s Wigmore Hall, presenting a rather more Lutheran kneel. But his concert was still a celebratory one, centered on two of … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Composing a new piece for any royal occasion is a delicate task, and for a funeral the challenge is particularly difficult. In earlier ages a composer might drench the ears of the congregation of Westminster Abbey with a solemn brassy glow, but for … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Look forward to – Proms are back, in all their glory. This was the message that the First Night was intended to give to the world. There was only one work on the program: Verdi’s Requiem, a heaven-screaming, eardrum-shaking kind of hit, with … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE POP MUSIC by Neil McCormick In the Small Hours of Frank Sinatra (1955)The tumultuous, short-lived second marriage of the great singer to Ava Gardner created this moody, melancholic masterpiece. Sinatra offers the perversely heroic sound of a man trying to get through an … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE What began as a difficult year for the arts – with theaters, cinemas and concert halls closed due to Covid restrictions – has nevertheless brought much enjoyment, from nail-biting television dramas and the return of summer festivals to the glorious Romeo and Juliet … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE It marks the beginning of a series of pioneering concerts led by the musician, the first German hornist to reside with a large British orchestra. At the age of 17, Mr. Klieser enrolled at the prestigious Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hanover. … Read more