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Wednesday, June 10, 2015
tutti talk edition 11, June 2015 - Apple's total immersion is good for classical music
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Announced this week is Apple's music streaming service. Apple's announcement was inevitable, and composers and songwriters h...
Friday, April 24, 2015
Dove takes flight at Easter
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I was fascinated by a listing in The Times in the run up to Easter, itemising the musical settings due to be performed at Cathedrals, Roy...
Tuesday, March 04, 2014
tutti talk edition 8, February 2014 - Standing up for the BBC
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The Beeb, Aunty or just plain BBC has once more been at the heart of hot topics in press and other media. In advance of charter renewal,...
tutti talk edition 7, January 2014 - remembering Benjamin Britten
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Although we are now firmly in 2014 and have left the Britten centennial year behind, I didn't want to head in to the Richard Strau...
Thursday, November 14, 2013
A giant among composers
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That's an epithet that can apply in so many ways to Sir John Tavener - a giant of stature, a giant of thought, a giant of spirituality, ...
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Apples and Pears
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I was responding recently to a composer whose beef was that the Establishment (do we still use that term?!) continues to favour musical styl...
Wednesday, September 04, 2013
a beautiful autumn Norfolk morning
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It's a beautiful autumn Norfolk morning with the mist rolling off the fields. I'm in the mood to talk about music. You might think...
Friday, July 19, 2013
The sound of a glass ceiling breaking
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"The sound of a glass ceiling breaking." This is how the BBC Proms website describes the innovation of a woman conductor being ...
Operatic Opportunities
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Summer is here and open-air opera is upon us - Glyndebourne, Garsington and W11 to name but a few, but let me cast back a little - nominatio...
Baroque Spring
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In one of my early tutti talks, I mentioned the BBC Radio 3 blockbuster series Baroque Spring, which was presented throughout the month of ...
RIP - RRB
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tutti talk is our latest email strand and this is the first edition. We know music is your passion - it's our passion, too which is ...
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