2022 marks 150 years since the birth of Ralph Vaughan Williams, one of the most influential composers of the 20th century.
Here is a list of celebrations leisure-time music groups can get involved in across the UK.
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Post date: Friday, 18 February 2022 - 5:03pm
Post date: Friday, 18 February 2022 - 3:57pm
Celebrating its 307th anniversary in 2022, the Three Choirs Festival is the longest running non-competitive classical music festival in the world.
Rotating between the English cathedral cities of Hereford, Gloucester and Worcester, the festival hosts an annual, week-long, summer programme packed with concerts, services, recitals, masterclasses, talks, theatre, exhibitions and lots more - with plenty of scope for leisure-time music groups to join in the fun!
Post date: Thursday, 17 February 2022 - 6:18pm
Making Music is a member of Musica, an international project to create the world’s largest database of choral music. Through this arrangement, all our members have access to the database of over 200,000 pieces of choral music and biographies of over 33,000 composers.
Post date: Wednesday, 16 February 2022 - 12:57pm
The Singing for Health Network (SFHN) has published free downloadable guides for leaders of choirs and singing groups across the UK, and for social prescribers (also known as link workers), and can also be used by instrumental groups.
Created in consultation with partners and professionals across the arts and health sectors, including Making Music, the resources are designed to support successful referrals to music groups and a happier, healthier music-making nation.
Post date: Monday, 14 February 2022 - 8:00am
Vivian Anthony of Leicestershire Chorale talks about the group’s history and legacy in his new book.
I suppose there are others who can claim to be in their 75th year as a chorister, but how many are still singing with a choir as good as Leicestershire Chorale?
Post date: Friday, 11 February 2022 - 8:00am
Mike Woodward, director of Opera Anywhere, talks us through what his company can do for leisure-time music groups.
Opera Anywhere is a professional opera company touring the UK with the aim of promoting and performing collaborative, accessible, staged productions.
Post date: Tuesday, 1 February 2022 - 2:11pm
Martin Raymond discusses writing the words to ‘Breathing Place’, the collaboration between Helensburgh Oratorio Choir and Aileen Sweeney for Adopt a Composer 2019/20.
Writing is a solitary activity - a desk, a screen and your own thoughts. So, what a thrill to sit as part of the audience in Helensburgh Parish Church and listen to the premiere of ‘Breathing Place’. And then to hear it again on BBC Radio 3. Lovely to hear your words sung with such precision and passion. But even more exciting to be part of something so big and so communal.
Post date: Thursday, 27 January 2022 - 12:38pm
The government Protect Duty consultation in 2021 was about potential new legislation to oblige those running publicly accessible spaces to implement measures to mitigate the risks of terrorism to the public.
Post date: Tuesday, 18 January 2022 - 3:54pm
Foss Foster of Aberdeenshire Saxophone Orchestra provides an update on her group’s latest rehearsal with Ugie Voices and music creator Ben Lunn as they look ahead to recording their collaboration.
Post date: Monday, 17 January 2022 - 10:30am
Making Music is delighted to announce the participants for Adopt a Music Creator 2022, an expanded version of the hugely popular Adopt a Composer project, which pairs leisure-time music groups with emerging music creators to create brand new music.
