The Rite of Spring, Peckham Car Park/ Yellow Lounge, London Bridge Arches
The Arts Desk
It was the latest and most sophisticated multi-channeled collaboration to hit London, with gallerist Hannah Barry teaming up with composers Gabriel Prokofiev and Kate Whiteley of Cambridge University. But before the quality music-making could began, …

BRIDPORT: Take on Tom! No tuition fees, but quite a long wait!
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The focus of the group for this week was classical composers and I was paired up to take on the challenge of a classical music quiz. I don't really know my Beethoven from my Brahms but with a little help I managed to score a respectable three out of …

Vauxhall Gardens: A History by David Coke and Alan Borg – review
The Guardian
The central grove, with its classical portico at one end, was like "an ancient Greek agora". It could accommodate 3000 people. With 100000 visitors each season, the gardens provided London-based composers with their first mass audiences. …

Musical treasures
BBC News
"This is a hoard of considerable value for future scholars of music and performance technique which will reassess many forgotten British composers of light classical music and could fundamentally change our view of silent film music forever. …

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Jazz on a summer's evening sounds great . . .
Cambridge News
On August 3, the second 'Sounds Green' recital will see the Skittles Quintet, all-wind instrumentalists from the Royal Academy, bring a programme of works by great French composers, complemented by some lighter music of different styles. …

Sam's working hard in pursuit of musical dream
Malvern Gazette
His influences also hop from genre to genre, ranging from classical composers Ludovico Einaudi and Mike Oldfield to seminal songwriters Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash, as well as pop-rock artists The Cranberries, Lifehouse and Damien Rice. …

What a scorcher of a love triangle in Maria di Rohan
Sheffield Telegraph
BUXTON Festival begins this Saturday and two of its three flagship operas this year are by composers who are extremely well known in the High Peak town, Donizetti and Handel, respectively. The last but one of Donizetti's 70 operas, Maria di Rohan …

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Friday, July 7, 1961
Northumberland Gazette
… played the violin in Mr Fred 'Brizlee' Willcox's orchestra, and in various local orchestral societies. He does not intend to take up violin playing again, but will enjoy listening to classical concerts, his favourite composers being Mozart and Handel.

The murder of a great comprehensive school
Telegraph.co.uk
Alex Ross of the New Yorker praises the “sensational refinement” of this most companionable of composers. All I can say is that, alas, I don't want him as my companion because, although he is a master of light and shade, there is only one colour in his …

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Bristol Metropolitan Orchestra / Mihai Cocea (violin)
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… during the composers' grand tours to Italy, yet both works were completed on their return home, in Berlin and Paris respectively. The fine Romanian violist Mihai Cocea, finalist in the 2008 European Young Musicians and a rising classical star, …