Great article by our co-artistic director @Tomhammondmusic on the efforts and rewards of putting on an annual #musicfestival - plus a preview of the fantastic line up of artists, music and events at this year’s Festival ⬇️🎶👏🏼
📢 SOME VERY EXCITING NEWS
⭐ St John's Smith Square & @SouthbankSinf are merging⭐
We’re delighted to announce our new organisation: Southbank Sinfonia at St John’s Smith Square – a beacon for the future of classical music.
Find out more: https://t.co/hmSWdrSnZq
Our March offering (3.00pm on Sunday 14 March) is Mozart:’s Kegelstatt Trio, K.498 for Clarinet, Viola and Piano, played on period instruments by @DeNOTE2@denotejohn@denotejane and Peter Collyer.
Available on our YouTube channel from 3pm Sunday
https://t.co/rJpwgDgqUr
The Times:
Sir, The government could at a stroke resolve the “blame game” aspect of the touring problem by publishing the negotiations that led to the present impasse.
Lord Berkeley of Knighton
Composer; House of Lords
I am afraid the PM is clearly confusing a tourist visa with a work visa. The minute someone is paid they no longer qualify for a tourist visa which is why musicians are up in arms and why the Government needs to sort this out ‘Presto’
For those of you who liked yesterday’s lockdown Bach video, here’s the Bk1 D maj Prelude. The Fugue is too long for Twitter, link here: https://t.co/ZnAc4lxDEp
As a rather quiet 2020 comes to an end (thank God!), I’m finally looking forward to resurrecting most of the Beethoven I would have been playing (including with @DeNOTE2 ) in postponed concerts. Meanwhile, rather a lot of Bach has found its way under my fingers too!
Rumours of performances being cancelled until April is not govt policy. We want performances back on as soon as we safely can
I have heard calls for a restart date with fuller audiences & am working on this. Certainty is hard in a pandemic but know this is important for planning