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Everybody has a right to share our music

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Inspired of the article in The Times about how to get kids to fall in love with classical music, we wanted to introduce to the man, who was a pioneer in developing education programmes in the UK: Richard McNicol.

He began his career as a professional flute player and member of the London Philharmonic during the Seventies. Whilst working there, McNicol saw a need for music education and persued the goal to link children with the world of professional music. He began pioneering work with orchestras and young people, forming the Apollo Trust in 1977. The Trust’s aim was to bring professional orchestras into the field of education – an idea which was seen as radical in those days, but thanks to such initiatives, educational work is now accepted as central to the role of classical ensembles.

From 1993 to 2006 McNicol held the position of Music Animateur to the London Symphony Orchestra. In 2002 he was invited by Simon Rattle to create an education programme for the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. This project was accompanied by a film crew and the result was recorded in the ground-breaking movie Rhythm is it!. McNicol described it as follows: “It is a project that revolves around Stravinsky’s great masterpiece The Rite Of Spring and it was quite obvious to us that we should treat it as a dance project since it’s a piece of Ballet music. I discussed it with Simon and we were both very taken by the idea of bringing together East and West, the favoured areas and the less favoured areas. People who perhaps might never meet each other, to work together to evolve dance with a really good choreographer.” As you can see in the movie, in the beginning most of the children weren’t really excited about the idea of focussing on a classical music piece, but the result was fascinating. The more the children practised, the more they got thrilled by the music. You can see a short clip of the brilliant performance here:

(Written on April 9, 2013 )

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29th June: The Ring, Matthias Pintscher and Jose Angel Salazar

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The Telegraph

New music scholarships for London’s talented children

Talented children who might otherwise slip through the music education net are fulfilling their promise thanks to a new scholarship scheme.

The Guardian

Damon Albarn’s opera Dr Dee – video

Dr Dee, an opera about the Elizabethan mathematician, astronomer and astrologer Dr John Dee, opened at the Coliseum on Monday night.

Gramophone

China holds its first Li Delun National Conducting Competition

Designed to inspire young Chinese conductors of the future.

BBC Music Magazine

Tower Bridge as a musical instrument

Composer Samuel Bordoli has written a piece to be performed on London’s Tower Bridge as part of the City of London Festival’s 50th anniversary.

Arts Journal – Slipped Disc

German theatre chief: Give the Ring a rest

In a perfect curtain-raiser to the Bayreuth festival and the Wagner bicentenary, the president of the German Theatre Association Klaus Zehelein says there are too many productions of the Ring.

New artistic director at Ensemble Intercontemporain

It’s the composer Matthias Pintscher.

 LA Times

El Sistema produces a new, younger Gustavo Dudamel

Gustavo Dudamel, 31, seems practically middle-aged compared to Jose Angel Salazar, a 14-year-old El Sistema student who has gained attention recently for his talent as a conductor.

 

(Written on June 29, 2012 )

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23rd January – Looking to the future: Glyndebourne’s renewable energy source and Plácido Domingo supports music education

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The New Yorker

Etta James: Her Lonely Sound.

Hilton Als remembers Etta James.

New York Times

Stradivari Cello Sells For More Than $6 Million.

A beloved set of strings goes to a good home.

LA Times

A New Stage Gives Voice To Nazi-Suppressed Operas.

Last weekend marked the first time that Ernst Krenek’s “The Secret Kingdom” and Viktor Ullmann’s “The Emperor of Atlantis” have shared a bill.

Placido Domingo Shows Support For New York Music Education Program.

On Wednesday, Plácido Domingo took time out of his schedule to travel 40 blocks south where he conducted a youth concert of students who are participating in a music program inspired by Venezuela’s El Sistema.

BBC News

Glyndebourne Wind Turbine Divides Opinion.

The turbine at Glyndebourne Opera House has been officially launched five years after the project was first publicly mooted.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-16654865

 

 

 

(Written on January 23, 2012 )

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WildKatPR welcome Andrew Staples, Vignette Production, Sid Samberg and Music in Offices

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WildKatPR is proud to announce that we will be working with four outstanding new clients in various fields.  These are Andrew Staples (tenor), Vignette Productions (opera production company), Sid Samberg (composer / pianist) and Music in Offices (music education group).

WildKat is managing an international campaign for all of Andrew Staples’ engagements as well as looking towards his upcoming project, Opera For Change, in September 2013. Andrew will be performing in Opera Holland Park‘s production of Così fan tutte this summer and directing a new production of La Cenerentola at Bury Court Opera in March.

Sid Samberg is a dynamic young composer and pianist who has performed internationally. WildKat is working with Sid, consulting on his career in both America and Europe.

We are also working with Music In Offices, a unique music education company whose clients are high fliers from a range of industries. WildKat is working on their innovative Office Choir Of The Year initiative.

(Written on December 16, 2011 )