As many of you may have heard, we’ve been fortunate enough to be shortlisted twice(!) for this year’s RPS Music Awards. In the RPS Music Award for Learning & Participation category is last Summer’s fantastic We are Shadows – our opera project that was two years in the making and involved over 300 participants of all ages…
An intensive weekend of rehearsals and get-in for We are Shadows. Last week saw the first call for the ensemble on Thursday and now we’re in the final straight of rehearsals for our piece. Listening to the adult chorus yesterday, as they were put through their paces by conductor Natalie Murray, Director Mia Theil Have…
DJ & Broadcaster Nick Luscome will be presenting a night of electronic music tonight at the Village Underground featuring performances from The Simonsound, Subeena as well as Ski Oakenfull‘s project Ayota. To get you in the mood for the event here is a clip of Nick Luscombe chatting with Ski Oakenfull about his recent project…
Programme Manager for Learning & Participation – Tamsin Oldham gives an insight into the Spitalfields Music Family Day that took place at Spitalfields City Farm on Saturday (18 June): The Spitalfields Music team met at 9am ready to decant 15 tabla, 4 trestle tables, 20 storybooks, 2 boxes brimming with musical instruments, 1 very large…
James Weeks writes about the inspiration behind his new choral work The Freedom of the Earth. The following is an excerpt from his article published in this morning’s Guardian. In the beginning of Time, the great Creator Reason made the Earth to be a Common Treasury, to preserve Beasts, Birds, Fishes and Man: but not…
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