Tuesday, 27 September 2016

Jeremy Corbyn plays the violin with children in Liverpool -

. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is given a violin lesson by 10 year old Jessica Kelly during a visit to Faith Primary School in Liverpool, where he met children taking part in the In Harmony project.

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Julius Eastman: Radical composer who ended up sleeping rough

Black, gay and working-class, he was forgotten after his death, but his music is being revived

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Monday, 26 September 2016

Boston Music Student With Bipolar Disorder Has Been Missing in New York City for a Week

Camhi, a 25-year-old Boston University graduate student and classical musician, was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2013 and, according to friends, might have been slipping on his medication.

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Watch when an orchestra 'played' AI and big data at the Louvre

Accenture has teamed up with a coder, an orchestral composer and a datavis company to put artificial intelligence (AI) and big data to music, in a project called Symphonologie.

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The Ulster Orchestra will mark its golden anniversary with 50 pop-up performances in one day

The Ulster Orchestra will mark its golden anniversary with 50 pop-up performances in and around Belfast

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Did you know: This Haydn minuet and trio sounds exactly the same played backwards as it does forwards

An enterprising YouTuber has shown that the minuet and trio movements from Haydn's Symphony No.47 sound the same backwards and forwards

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Saturday, 24 September 2016

Gilbert and Sullivan's original Yeomen of the Guard score published

The full orchestral score for Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta The Yeomen of the Guard is being published for the first time - 128 years after it was written.

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