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“A Rolls Royce appeared to pick me up for Top Of The Pops. I asked who booked it; the driver said, ‘Your manager.’ We sacked him and I took the bus”: The convoluted story of Procol Harum’s A Whiter Shade Of Pale

In May 1967, the band’s debut single changed the musical world. Nearly six decades later it’s developed a long and protracted legacy

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“You can only break the rules if you know what the rules are”: How changing up your chord voicing can make your music sound more expansive

Now you’ve composed the chords for your song, it’s time to find your inner voicing!

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Meet the composer who claimed her music channelled the spirits of classical music icons

One of the most controversial figures in music of the 20th century is Rosemary Brown, who died in 2001 at age 85. She was a British composer who claimed she had contact with the spirits of a number of high-profile composers of western classical music.

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JC Bach was the darling of Georgian London. Will his forgotten opera shake off the shadow of his celebrated father?

Publication of Lucio Silla by JS Bach’s youngest son could see his talent recognised once more in the city he made his home

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New fish found off Madagascar: remarkable long-nosed skate discovered in the deep ocean

The Madagascar Ridge, in the southwestern Indian Ocean, is a remote, elevated area of seabed south of Madagascar. In 2016, my colleagues and I discovered a new cartilaginous fish species in its deep waters; a catshark that we named Bach’s catshark (Bythaelurus bachi) after German composer Johann Sebastian Bach. (In…

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"I never practiced": Unpicking Yngwie Malmsteen's guitar claim

If he's right, how did he get so good?

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Ryuichi Sakamoto Changed Music By Fusing Technology And Emotion

Sakamoto lived up to the motto "Ars longa, vita brevis." Loosely translated, this means "Art takes time. Life is brief."

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Gareth Malone’s Easter Passion: release date, interview, choristers and everything we know

Gareth Malone’s Easter Passion — the musical maestro guides amateur singers through a tough seasonal challenge.

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The Beatles transcend time, geography, demographics and personal taste

As the anniversary of John Lennon’s murder approaches, we are reminded again that the band’s magic never disappears

The Guardian - US

Singing by boys’ choir ‘sounds more brilliant’ when girls in audience

Just as frogs and crickets alter calls to attract mates, study shows male singers boost vocals in front of female onlookers

The Guardian - UK

How Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor became Halloween's theme song

Imagine a grand house on a hill, after dark on an autumn night. As the door opens, an organ pierces through the thick silence and echoes through the cavernous halls.

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The Score review – Brian Cox is magnetic as JS Bach in a clash of values

The Succession star excels in Oliver Cotton’s play about the meeting between the composer and Frederick the Great

The Guardian - UK

‘My privacy is gone’: Brian Cox on Succession’s toll, spurning Game of Thrones – and his new role as Bach

As he returns to the stage to play Bach in crisis, the actor sounds off about the mess Britain’s in, explains why he turned down Game of Thrones – and reveals the price he has paid for Succession

The Guardian - UK

From Golda to Frasier: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Whether it’s Helen Mirren portraying the Israeli prime minister or the Seattle shrink revisiting Boston, our critics have you covered for the next seven days

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After Amadeus: Brian Cox as Bach is theatre’s latest orchestral manoeuvre

Oliver Cotton’s The Score, a new drama about Bach’s confrontation with Frederick II, continues a rich tradition of plays about great composers

Chicago Sun-Times

Fall classical music preview: An early-music collaboration and 10 more highlights of the season

Riccardo Muti returns, Lyric Opera goes to sea and Newberry Consort joins forces for the first time with Haymarket Opera Company.

The Guardian - UK

30 autumn arts highlights, chosen by Observer critics

From Scorsese and Madonna to a Philip Guston retrospective, a Maria Callas tribute and Armando Iannucci’s play on Tory chaos, our writers pick the best things to see this autumn

The Canberra Times

Five things you can do this weekend

Amadeus, Hay Fever and cabaret are happening.

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Newcastle Music Festival chamber choir to debut on Sunday

Noon concert at ChristChurch Cathedral

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US music education has a history of anti-Blackness that is finally being confronted

When it comes to achieving racial diversity, music education at the university level in the U.S. still has a long way to go.

The Guardian - UK

Who’s that busker on the streets of Nairobi? Only the world-famous cellist Yo-Yo Ma!

The maestro has been on a five-year mission to bring joy to the world through the music of Bach. On the final stop in Kenya last week, he took that mission outside the concert hall

Wales Online

Order of service of the coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla in full

When William, Duke of Normandy, defeated King Harold at Hastings in 1066, he was determined that he should be seen as the legitimate king of England...

Manchester Evening News

King's coronation order of service in full including music and readings

The full order of service for the coronation ceremony which is due to take place at Westminster Abbey on Saturday

Chicago Sun-Times

WWII vet dies as his last wish was to be fulfilled: a pipe organ performance for 100th birthday

Robert Heinzen died a day before the celebration his family rushed to finalize. They decided to go ahead with the performance as a memorial Mass.

Newcastle Herald

Violinist Susan Collins to star at Newcastle Music Festival

By the time she was 14, Susan was performing with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, uat the Sydney Opera House

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