On stage with Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Gramophone magazine nominates its top 10 classical music moments in cinema: http://www.gramophone.co.uk/features/focus/top-10-classical-music-moments-in-cinema Do you have favourites that aren’t on this list? We think that playing the opening bars of the Kyrie from Mozart’s Requiem at the end of Shekar Kapur’s Elizabeth with Cate Blanchett, is pretty potent.

With orchestras and opera companies around the world facing an uncertain future, this feature from the New Statesman argues that in London at least, the marketing of classical music events, especially opera, is flawed. It says the selling of opera is too often “conceived by people who already love the art form for people who already love the art…

Sad news today that the music world has lost two of its great conductors – Sir Jeffrey Tate and Jiří Bělohlávek. Sir Jeffrey Tate (74), was well-known to Australian  audiences as Principal Guest Conductor and Artistic Adviser of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. He was scheduled to conduct them again in October this year. He is reported…