Who'd have thought Adopt a Composer projects would end up marketed on Brighton buses? Lindsay Stoner, of the Fretful Federation Mandolin Orchestra offers some insight.
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Post date: Wednesday, 14 November 2018 - 2:47pm
First impressions of Adopt a Composer from Da Capo Alba.
Post date: Friday, 9 November 2018 - 3:21pm
When I was trying to justify my existence as a music student I often suffered from crises of confidence. In talking to colleagues years later it is some comfort to learn that I wasn’t alone in thinking that everyone else was far more talented and that sooner or later I would be, ‘found out’.
Apparently we all, (apart from a very few confidence-ridden individuals) have thoughts about not really belonging where we find ourselves.
Post date: Wednesday, 7 November 2018 - 12:35pm
We're thrilled to announce that two composers from our Adopt a Composer project have been nominated for the 2018 British Composer Awards.
Robert Laidlow, involved in the current year's Adopt a Composer, has been nominated as one of three finalists in the 'Small Chamber' category for his piece 'Lines Between'.
Post date: Friday, 2 November 2018 - 4:10pm
Edmund Hunt on final amendments and writing spacial awareness into a score.
Post date: Thursday, 25 October 2018 - 3:46pm
Score Exchange is an international marketplace for buying and selling sheet music. Featuring over a million pages of music, performers of any ability can find interesting new sheet music to download and print at www.scoreexchange.com
Post date: Friday, 19 October 2018 - 3:25pm
Making music as a hobby has a long tradition in the UK where there are an estimated 40,000 choirs and at least 20,000 instrumental groups including brass bands, amateur orchestras, sitar societies, folk groups, drumming circles, jazz bands, ukulele groups, and more, with over 3.3 million individuals involved.
Every community has such groups that bring people from all walks of life together to practise and perform music in their leisure-time on a regular basis.
Post date: Tuesday, 16 October 2018 - 2:32pm
Ex Urbe choirs give us a delightful insight on being paired with composer Chloe Knibbs.
If you Google ‘find the perfect relationship’ it will, in the blink of an eye, show you 635 million results.
Post date: Thursday, 11 October 2018 - 2:56pm
Looking for a way to help protect arts education in schools? You can do this by simply writing a letter. Bacc for the Future, the Cultural Learning Alliance and What Next? have produced a toolkit to help you get started.
Post date: Tuesday, 9 October 2018 - 10:00am
Making Music is delighted to announce that Dr Mark Lawrence has been awarded the national Lady Hilary Groves Prize for his outstanding contribution to music in the community.
