Last year, many members wrote to and emailed Birmingham City Council when, as part of their budget consultations, they were proposing closing down the music library altogether. This at a time when the service had just moved into the brand new library building and was able to offer users fantastic – and as I saw for myself: much used – facilities, including for listening and playing.
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Post date: Friday, 26 February 2016 - 4:49pm
As part of the VCM Choral Music Foundation's outreach programme for the 2016/17 season, British vocal ensemble Apollo5 is available to choral community groups for subsidised bookings for fundraising concerts.
Post date: Friday, 26 February 2016 - 3:51pm
We are sad to announce the death of Andrew Potter, Vice President and former Chairman of Making Music, at his home in Sussex on 18 February 2016.
Post date: Wednesday, 10 February 2016 - 6:31pm
The life of accomplished musician, principal teacher and Tayside Symphony Orchestra founder Ron Walker will be celebrated at a memorial service on Friday.
Mr Walker died suddenly in Dundee’s Ninewells Hospital, aged 74, having stepped down from the TSO role earlier this year due to ill-health.
Born in Perth and brought up in Newburgh, he began piano lessons at a young age and after leaving Bell Baxter High School in Cupar secured a place at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow to study music.
Post date: Wednesday, 10 February 2016 - 4:44pm
Whether you’re a singer, an instrumentalist or part of an ensemble, WML are happy to consider including you in their events programme; they can even provide an excellent Yamaha Clavinova.
With tailored marketing including all your concert publicity, mail-outs, on-line promotion and printed concert progammes, this is an exciting opportunity for you to perform, to promote yourself and to add to your portfolio of concert experience.
All our concerts are held week days between 6.00pm and 7.00pm, for further information contact:
Post date: Wednesday, 10 February 2016 - 1:03pm
Composer Alison Willis reflects on Act III of her new piece, written for CYCO as part of the Adopt a Composer scheme.
Post date: Wednesday, 3 February 2016 - 10:56am
It is a curious feature of Thame that if one looks upwards, there is often a surprising abundance of birds of prey meandering across the sky.
Post date: Thursday, 28 January 2016 - 5:57pm
If you’re a registered charity, then once a year, no later than 9 months after the end of your financial year, you need to file an annual return with the Charity Commission.
Post date: Thursday, 28 January 2016 - 11:47am
Dorset has some beautiful, historic churches, rich with architectural merit. This was not one of them.
Post date: Wednesday, 27 January 2016 - 12:50pm
Today we have incredible access to a seemingly infinite amount of music: Spotify, YouTube, Apple Music – not to mention an abundance of online score libraries. I see these as far from overwhelming, rather as advantageous resources in enabling increased diversity on the concert platform.
