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In memoriam Lars Vogt

Posted on October 12, 2022October 18, 2022 by Michael Church
Lars Vogt remembered, By Michael Church   Can one play vibrato on the piano? Since it’s just a box of hammers, with each making only momentary contact with its string, the common-sense answer m... Read More

Evgeny Kissin on Russian anti-Semitism, in an interview with Michael Church

Posted on August 16, 2022September 9, 2022 by Michael Church
It’s an ill wind… Temporarily prevented from performing in Verbier by tendonitis in his left shoulder, Evgeny Kissin suddenly has time on his hands, and is in a mood, I’m told, to give an interv... Read More

Musics Lost and Found – review by Chinese music expert

Posted on November 12, 2021November 12, 2021 by Michael Church
Stephen Jones, the leading authority on Chinese village music, has written a review of Musics Lost and Found which takes my book’s argument further, in many interesting directions… Click here: To ... Read More

Voice of Armenia:  the tragedy of Komitas

Posted on October 28, 2021November 12, 2021 by Michael Church
SOGHOMON SOGHOMONIAN was born in 1869 in Kütahya, an Armenian Christian enclave whose inhabitants suffered systematic oppression under the Ottoman yoke. Even those Armenians who could speak their anc... Read More

Discussing ‘Musics Lost and Found’ on Radio 3’s ‘Music Matters’

Posted on October 4, 2021November 27, 2021 by Michael Church
On Saturday 2 October, Radio 3’s Music Matters carried an item in which Tom Service and I discussed, with musical examples, the central argument of my new book Musics Lost and Found: Song Collectors... Read More

‘Musics Lost and Found: Song Collectors and the Life and Death of Folk Tradition’

Posted on September 22, 2021November 6, 2021 by Michael Church
  Is folk music dying? In my new book I suggest that it is, at least in Europe and North America, thanks to the globalisation, urbanisation, and industrialisation which is now eroding the worldâ€... Read More

Rule Britannia: a storm in a teacup, capitalised on by Johnson and the Mail

Posted on August 26, 2020August 29, 2020 by Michael Church
Rule Britannia – and how the Tory media have capitalised on it By Michael Church From the Independent, 26.8.20 You couldn’t make it up. First the chronology. On Sunday, in what seemed like a k... Read More

John Gilhooly’s Wigmore leads the charge

Posted on August 8, 2020August 8, 2020 by Michael Church
It’s no surprise that classical music should come last in the government’s list of priorities for resuscitation. It’s also no surprise that John Gilhooly, boss of the Wigmore Hall, should be the... Read More

Classical music: the Proms, and the state we’re in

Posted on July 6, 2020July 17, 2020 by Michael Church
Classical music in crisis, and the Proms By Michael Church   Whither live classical music? When the lockdown was enforced, all concerts were cancelled for the foreseeable future, and musical life... Read More

By a beach in Latvia…

Posted on August 22, 2019August 28, 2019 by Michael Church
Latvia may occupy a large territory, but its population of 1.7 million would fit into a small corner of London, and its road to independence has been long and hard. It endured centuries of Swedish, Po... Read More
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