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2019-10-08 10:45:24
[…] 30th anniversary of the awards, though the Royal Philharmonic Society itself was founded in 1813 and has presented the Gold Medal since 1870. See below for the full shortlist of nominees: Chamber-Scale Composition Clara Lannotta – dead wasps in the jam-jar (iii) Julian Anderson – String Quartet No. 3 Tansy Davies – Cave Concert Series and Events The Cumnock Tryst Freedom Season – Welsh National Opera The Nature of Why – British Paraorchestra Stockhausen: Cosmic Prophet – Southbank Centre Conductor Francois Xavier-Roth Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla Robert Ames Ensemble Aurora Orchestra BSO Resound Royal Northern Sinfonia Impact BSO Change Makers and Resound Empowering Young Carers – Bath Philharmonia Streetwise Opera Instrumentalist Alina Ibragimova – violin Jean-Guihen Queyras – cello Mahan Esfahani – harpsichord Large-Scale Composition Anna Meredith – Five Telegrams George Benjamin – Lessons in Love and […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2018-08-22 20:32:02
Disabled Musicians Take The Proms
There are other orchestras in the UK for disabled musicians, notably conductor Charles Hazlewood’s British Paraorchestra, which was formed in 2011 to give disabled musicians the chance to perform. The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra has gone a stage further, treating music-making by disabled musicians as one of its core activities. Resound’s six musicians perform as a self-contained […]
Royal Opera House (The Guardian)
2017-07-02 20:58:18
The arts are a British success story. Now they need more resources, more boldly distributedEnglish arts organisations are digesting news of how they are to be funded until 2022 by Arts Council England. The most striking trend in last Tuesday’s announcement was a welcome one: for the four years following 2018, an extra £170m is to be funnelled out of London in an attempt to redress the sharp disparity between arts provision in the capital and beyond it. Since the publication of reports suggesting that public spending on the arts amounted to £68.99 per head of population in London, and only £4.58 outside it, this shift has been urgently needed.Welcome, too, is the news that 183 organisations are to be funded regularly for the first time, from Wise Children, theatre director Emma Rice’s new company in the West Country, to the inventive and inspiring British Paraorchestra, based in Bristol, which draws […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2016-07-22 15:00:09
Meet The Orchestra Of Disabled Musicians That Grew Out Of The 2012 Paralympics
“The resistance that they come up against in being fearless, brilliant and bold doesn’t usually come from within, but from others. I’m talking about the British Paraorchestra, … performing challenging works, playing all manner of instruments you’d never hear in traditional orchestras, adding spikes of technology and pushing themselves to the limits of their hard-practised skills. Did I mention that they are disabled? Does it matter? Unfortunately it does, but that’s what we are here to try to change.”