It is a truth universally acknowledged that a Great Composer, over the course of their life, and however Great a Composer they are considered to be, is likely to write something that is actually not so very Great at all. Something a bit under par. Something you might even be
I’m delighted to welcome Dr Kevin Malone to the site, who kindly consented to write the first ever guest post here! Kevin is Senior Lecturer in Composition, and former Head of Composition at the University of Manchester. He is writing here in a private capacity, in response (initially) to the
Some thoughts on opera, funding, and finding audiences… At the end of a week where the game of two halves rather lost its equal opportunities for both sides, newspaper and online debate has produced a raft of articles concerning a slightly different kind of inequality. When the 2015-18 Arts Council funding
