All Coronavirus articles – Page 2
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Lockdown commissions 4: Lawrence Power plays Cassandra Miller’s ‘Daylonging, Slacktide’
In the fourth of his ten ‘lockdown commissions’ performances, filmed in and on top of iconic empty venues, violist Lawrence Power plays Cassandra Miller’s ’Daylonging, Slacktide’, filmed in and around Snape Maltings. This is what Miller says about the piece: ‘In March 2020, I found myself at Snape Maltings ...
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Focus
‘That pre-performance adrenaline rush made me feel alive again’ – Guy Johnston
Ahead of his streamed chamber music festival at Hatfield House, the British cellist shares his experience of performing for online broadcast during the lockdown
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News
London Philharmonic Orchestra returns to Royal Festival Hall this autumn
The ensemble’s Autumn season will consist of 13 streamed concerts
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Rule, Britannia! will now be sung at BBC Proms 2020
The UK music festival has reversed its decision to perform orchestral arrangements of Rule, Britannia! and Land of Hope and Glory following heated criticism
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Article
Major US agency goes bust
As Covid-19 prevents artists from making money, those who represent them are feeling the pinch too
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Czech Philharmonic launches 125th season to capacity audiences
The season will launch on 23 September with a programme of Shostakovich and Mahler
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Academy of St Martin in the Fields presents a series of autumn concerts with live audience
re:connect, an eight-concert series, begins on 12 September
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Snape Maltings continues live performances with audience
Among the performers are Nicola Benedetti and Alina Ibragimova
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London Symphony Orchestra moves autumn season to LSO St Luke’s
The Autumn season will take place online on various platforms
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Liverpool Philharmonic Hall to reopen with socially-distanced audience
The orchestra is to give 14 one-hour socially distanced concerts from 1 October to 4 November
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Two Moors Festival to take place with social distancing this autumn
The festival will take place over two weekends on Dartmoor and Exmoor
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Debate
Beethoven’s music is especially appropriate in the time of Covid-19
Beethoven has been denied his year of celebration by the coronavirus pandemic. But, writes Toby Deller, his ‘Heiliger Dankgesang’ is an emblem for the current crisis
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Cincinnati Symphony and Pops orchestras to livestream seven free concerts this autumn
The orchestras will also present additional digital content and live, physically distanced performances across the region
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St John’s Smith Square creates Artist Lab to support musicians during the coronavirus crisis
The London concert venue’s new bursary fund will allow musicians to develop creative ways to make live music during the current distancing restrictions
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Video
San Francisco Symphony musicians perform Rossini’s William Tell Overture from lockdown
‘No animals or violas were harmed during the filming of this video’ The musicians of the San Francisco Symphony - with help from their children and pets - perform the Finale from Rossini’s William Tell Overture from their separate homes. Watch: Chilean nurse plays violin to coronavirus patients Watch: ...
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Blogs
6 tips for performing in an empty concert hall
South African cellist Abel Selaocoe provides advice on livestreaming or recording performances for online audiences during the time of Covid-19
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News
ISM updates UK live performance guidelines
Indoor performances restart next weekend and face-to-face teaching is back on the cards
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Barbican announces plans to livestream concerts
Live music will be streamed from the Centre from the autumn
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Socially distanced audiences to return for indoor performances from 1 August
Extra safety measures taken in the UK will include increased deep cleaning and the use of e-tickets to help with track and trace
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Royal Opera House cuts all casual staff jobs
The ROH said that it would soon begin redundancy consultations affecting permanent staff