Should we pay the piper? Issues of artistic patronage Art has never flourished without some form of patronage, but...
Freedom Song: The Fisk Jubilee Singers' Story A choir of ex-slaves, raising funds to build their University, toured America from 1871, suffering discrimination and hardship.
Roman Singing and its Influence Across Europe In this lecture we shall explore what the singing of Rome meant far afield: in northern England, Ireland, Spain and Germany.
Metamorphoses – The Terrible Beauty of Change A Fusion of Benjamin Britten's "Six Metamorphoses After Ovid" (Op.49)...
Finishing the Unfinished: Completing Mozart's Zaide In November 2003, at the newly restored Hackney Empire, the...
The Grande Messe des Morts and the Absence of God David Cairns delivers this lecture ahead of the City of...
Bridgetower – Black Musicians and British Culture, 1807-2007 George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower, the son of an Abyssinian slave...
Debussy - Text and Ideas: Reflections on the new edition of Pelléas Critical editing must of necessity concern itself with facts, many...