Britain’s Big Platinum Performance will showcase the UK’s best leisure-time music groups on a recording that will be gifted this Platinum Jubilee year to Her Majesty The Queen.
As part of Classic FM's 30th birthday celebrations this year and to mark The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, Making Music has teamed up with Classic FM to invite groups from across the UK to submit a recording of a celebratory piece of music.
Elizabeth de Brito - musicologist, host of The Daffodil Perspective podcast, and guest speaker at our recent event on programming women composers - shines a light on influential female composers of colour, and gives some tips on diversifying your repertoire.
John Andrews, conductor of Trinity Orchestra, provides some welcome reflections on programming women composers for performances with his group.
Ongoing research published in the Journal of Music, Health, and Wellbeing continues to provide strong evidence of the pandemic's huge impact on music makers' lives over the past two years.
Edgar Divver recounts his first month working with Bedfordshire Woodwind Academy Flute Ensemble (BWAFE) as part of their Adopt a Music Creator 2022 collaboration.
Making Music has responded to the Government’s Levelling Up consultation with key contributions from our members.
The Levelling Up agenda, one of this Government’s flagship commitments, is now taking shape. The autumn budget committed some cash and in February the White Paper was published. Following this, most department’s parliamentary committees undertook consultations with their sectors about how they can contribute to this agenda, and what actions from the Government it would take to facilitate their contribution.
We have heard from a few member groups recently who have been contacted by HMRC and asked to submit a Company Tax Return (CTR). This is the tax return for paying Corporation Tax.
They are all registered charities and have not previously had to submit CTRs or pay any tax, and so contacted us to ask why they were being asked to do so now – and how to do it.
Our members registered as charities don’t generally have to pay tax or file a CTR.
Rebecca Demott of the Bedfordshire Woodwind Academy Flute Ensemble (BWAFE) relates her group's first workshop with music creator Edgar Divver, as part of their collaboration for Adopt a Music Creator 2022.
Today, members of BWAFE met Edgar, our adoptive music creator, face-to-face for the first time. Storm Eunice had tried her best but fallen fences and trees along the way didn't manage to disrupt our plans.
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.
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!
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