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SHAKESPEARE
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Orchestra of
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In villages,
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CONTENTS
APRIL 2016 ISSUE 1019
IN THIS ISSUE
56 ORCHESTRA OF THE SWAN
e Stratford-based
ensemble’s role in the
Shakespeare 400 celebrations
A musical bardwatching
update
e chief executive of
YCAT
Charles Owen and Katya
Apekisheva
A 90th birthday party in
Budapest
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48
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NEWS
News in brief
56
38 MEET THE MAESTRO
James Feddeck
© TERRY JOHNSTON
15 BARLINES
41
INSIDERS ANONYMOUS
e freelance conductor
59 SHAKESPEARE EXTRA
20 ARTIST MANAGER
NEWS
61 ALASDAIR TAIT
© KAUPO KIKKAS
e female conductors
making headlines
Katy Wright on the
month’s big stories
Women in music
Figures for musical
philanthropy
42 MUSICIANS’ UNION
Why should musicians play
for little or no fee?
Noise nuisance: what every
musician should know
I Fagiolini
Andrew Manze
e Menuhin Century
22 NEWS REVIEW
44 ISM
64 DOUBLE ACT
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23 INSIDE VIEW
72 RECORDING
COVER STORY
47
MARK SIMPSON
e composer on his rst
opera
plus
Lesley Garrett
on creating the leading role
66 GYÖRGY KURTÁG
25 ECONOMIC EAR
77 CD REVIEWS
78 BOOK REVIEWS
81
BROADCASTING
Radio 3 heads to Stratford
Cryptic crossword and quiz
69 WOMEN IN THE CREATIVE
INDUSTRIES
FEATURES
50 YORKSHIRE
An overview of the
county’s musical o erings
Claire Jackson reports from
the Southbank
A studio in your pocket
28
Ian Page
30
Charlotte Gardner
31
Toby Deller
32 PREMIERES
Sally Beamish, Elena
Langer and Matt Rogers
OPINION
71
AUDIOFILE
82 ENIGMA
54 LEEDS COLLEGE
OF MUSIC
e conservatoire launches
a New Music degree
REGULARS
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EDITORIAL
LETTERS & HORNBLOWER
37 Q&A: ANDREW
NETHSINGHA
84 RECRUITMENT ADVERTISING
86 EXTENDED INTERVALS
A critic’s life with
Michael White
Director of music at St
John’s College, Cambridge
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Welcome
couple of summers ago I went to the St Magnus Festival in Orkney for the rst time
and got a sense of the unique atmosphere of the place – a landscape that is both
familiar and strange, the quality of light (especially around the summer solstice),
and of course the isolation. I realise that’s a city dweller’s thing to say and your average
Orcadian might reasonably suggest that cramming oneself on to an underground train every
morning is what’s really peculiar – perhaps using a tinned herring simile.
But I had wondered why Peter Maxwell Davies – born in Salford, educated on the other
side of the river, not least in that remarkable Manchester College of Music class that included
Harrison Birtwistle, Alexander Goehr and John Ogdon, and established as a composer with
an international reputation by the age of 35 – chose to withdraw from the hubbub.
en again, he was no recluse. As well as continuing to work and travel of course, and
becoming an establishment gure (though a politically dissident one, and never a yes man),
he also bedded in to the Orkney community, maintaining a strand of composing with the
local schoolchildren in mind. At his 80th birthday concert during the festival, which he was
luckily able to attend – his health had been failing for some time – it could hardly be clearer
how much he was appreciated.
ENO has resolved its dispute with its chorus, with concessions made on both sides, though the
singers have had to accept a nine-month contract and consequent reduction in their guaranteed
pay, as a well as a reduction in their number from 44 to 40. It appears that the company’s
undertaking to nd work for the chorus beyond this core contract is serious enough to get Equity
on board, and the threatened strike did not take place. e company seems to be positioning
itself as a more exible beast, performing work in and out of the Coliseum – diversifying, in
management speak. e fact is, the Arts Council has less cash than it used to due to austerity
budgeting, and some things were bound to change. is appears to be one of them.
Latest developments as always at
www.classicalmusicmagazine.org,
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opinion on this or any topic, please do write to
letters@rhinegold.co.uk
KIMON DALTAS
EDITOR
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