Design competition will create one-handed orchestral instruments
Leading theatre professional launches new initiative to extend music-making opportunities for disabled people
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Youth Music makes plans for London
Youth Music has listed raising the profile of its work in London with MPs, heads of children’s servcies, key agencies and decision…
Gateway music
There’s a lot of hubbub on t’internet at the moment about a certain Rebecca Black and her ‘viral’ ‘hit’ Friday. It seems the hive-…
Red tape cut for live music
Government backing has been given to a private members bill which proposes that small venues should be exempt from needing a licen…
EU funding success
UK arts organisations’ applications for funding from the EU’s Culture Programme enjoyed the highest success rates of a…
Why a festival in Stoke was a bit like the internet
About nine months I sat, along with some other staff at B arts, in a room with friends from Stoke-based digital and music collecti…
No room for arts?
In the context of proposed changes to the English education system, the Education Committee has issued an inquiry and call for evi…
Henry Little
Alongside the arguments for the economic value of the arts, and the influence of the subsidised arts on the commercial arts sector…
Henley Review sparks shake-up of music education
New structures will emerge for music education and funding, but curriculum issues remain.
Chamber orchestras set out 2020 vision
10-year strategy reveals new ambitions for chamber orchestras
Louder together
The National Union of Teachers and the Musicians’ Union have joined together to oppose cuts to music services. In a new part…
If Stephen Hawking was a musician…
Doug Bott explains how one company is working to remove some of the obstacles that disabled people face when trying to participate…
Barry Kempton explains the path he took to his current post
CHIEF EXECUTIVE City of London Sinfonia (2007–present) Running a professional orchestra is a role I have long aspired to, bu…
Music education cuts
Local authorities are jumping the gun by cutting their music services while the national funding picture remains unclear, accordin…
Simon Dancey reveals the people who have inspired him most
THE CLASH Leaving school at 15 in the early 1980s with no qualifications and no job in industrial South Wales was not my smartest…
A new musical direction?
In this blog I will look to innovative uses of music, whether it is genre-blending collaborations, music as therapy or, in the cas…
Orchestral habits
Analysis of six years of box office data from 12 London-based orchestras and concert halls has revealed that audiences for o…
Clustering together
London is the heart of the creative industries in Britain, dominating almost all of the creative sectors, according to new researc…
News Comment
Rosy Greenlees comments on the new teaching White Paper, and cautions against a one-size-fits-all approach to cultural education
Selling a stake
In the first of our brand new series on strategies for financial sustainability, Gwilym Gibbons explains how his organisation is e…
The value of Art
Cuts, cuts, cuts. In this new ‘age of austerity’, that’s all I hear whenever the Arts [sic caps] are mentioned….
Charity licence exemption to end
The arrangements under which the not-for-profit sector (including charities, community halls, voluntary organisations, socia…
Arts are down-played in Teaching White paper
Any changes to cultural education will be based on the findings from the review of music provision in schools
News Comment
In AP228, we published news of research findings suggesting that traditional classical concerts are alienating for younger audienc…
