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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

How not to present a Live Prom

Posted on August 29, 2020August 30, 2020 by Michael Church
Live Prom 1, BBC2 From the Independent, 29.8.2020 “We’re in for ninety minutes of heaven, in this Mecca of live music!” This is the first night of the Live Proms, and Katie Derham is in Radio 3 ... 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

Prom No 1 – good in parts

Posted on July 23, 2020July 26, 2020 by Michael Church
The First BBC Prom Radio 3 Well, here we are, with the inevitable promotional hype about these Proms-as-never-before. ‘Nothing stops this great festival’ trumpets the presenter, before inviting me... Read More

The Last Prom – and Brexit

Posted on September 15, 2019September 17, 2019 by Michael Church
Last Prom, Royal Albert Hall In the ancient past, four years ago, people going to the Last Prom had a fairly settled sense of how to deal with it. Left-wingers could laugh at the programme’s jingois... Read More

Let nobody say the Proms don’t move with the times…

Posted on July 8, 2019July 9, 2019 by Michael Church
This year’s programme is full of nods to current fads, with the non-classical quota – at least ten of the 83 concerts – creeping steadily up. ‘Multi-genre’ is how the BBC describes this poli... Read More

In praise of the BBC Young Musician scheme

Posted on July 20, 2018July 22, 2018 by Michael Church
BBC Young Musician 40th Anniversary, Royal Albert Hall With Brexit threatening to unpick all the things which make life worth living in Britain, it behoves us to count our spoons (as the old saying go... Read More

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