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2021-03-17 09:59:24
Radio listeners in uproar over presenter changes
BBC Radio 3 has relegated one of its best presenters to the afternoon graveyard slot with this statement: Ian Skelly joins Afternoon Concert from 12th April. He joins a presenting line up including Penny Gore, Tom McKinney, and Fiona Talkington. Skelly is the urbane co-presenter of Radio 3’s mid-morning weekday show. He will now be buried […]
2021-02-13 05:55:00
Classical Music News of the Week, February 13, 2021
[…] “Blackbird,” will be streamed live from The Alta Arts on March 6, and will feature a performance from ROCO’s Brass Quintet. The performance will close out ROCO’s Unchambered series with a selection of contemporary works, ranging from Joan Tower’s “Copperwave” and Jonathan Bailey Howard’s “Introit,” to Robert Dennis’s "Blackbird Variations," a work based on the poem “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” by Wallace Stevens, and an arrangement of the Beatles’ “Blackbird” by Seb Skelly.For the full lineupof ROCO March concerts, visit https://roco.org/--Andrew Ousley, Unison MediaPowerful New Songs by Margaret Atwood and Jake HeggieOn the morning of September 22, 2015, in Renfrew County, Ontario, a single man went on a killing spree, brutally murdering three ex-partners in their separate homes. They were victims in a crime now recognized as one of the worst cases of domestic violence in Canadian history. The murders devastated the rural Ottawa Valley community where […]
2018-10-10 11:15:32
Alan Davey discusses the upcoming season on BBC Radio 3
[…] new BBC Singers conductor, David Charles Abell, singer Jeanine De Bique and violinist Jennifer Pike. The Listening Service will also continue, with lots of stimulating explanations of music and how it works, including the impact of minimalism on music. We'll be looking at what it is about composers like Steve Reich that inspires very extreme reactions of liking and loathing. Essential Classics is going to have some really great guests joining Suzy Klein and Ian Skelly, including actors Stephen Mangan, Graham Fellows and Lenny Henry, novelist Jessie Burton and conductor Sakari Oramo. So it’s going to be action-packed. 12 of the best books featuring classical music 5 top tips for attending the BBC Proms The BBC is undertaking a huge classical music project this year. Could you tell us more about it? Our Classical Century is a wonderful pan-BBC project involving four TV programmes, which will look at […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2017-12-06 12:11:20
Radio daze: Classic FM grabs record wiz from Radio 3
BBC Radio has lost Rob Cowan, its most knowledgeable presenter of classical records, to its commercial rival. Rob is part of a general talent and producer exodus from Radio 3. The station will replace him on Essential Classics with Prince Charles’s speechwriter, Ian Skelly.
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