For the second year running, Benslow Music, the Hitchin-based centre which provides around 160 short courses - most of them residential - for non-professional musicians each year, is collaborating with the Centre for the Arts at North Hertfordshire College to stage a magical work, The Fairy Queen, written in the early 1690s by the great Restoration composer Henry Purcell.
The piece was originally written to be performed with the context of Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream, but these days it is usually given ...
Benslow Music today announces the first in a new series of jazz concerts at its headquarters in Benslow Lane, Hitchin.
The opening event is given by renowned jazz bassist Viktor Obsust, who brings his Trio to Hitchin for an evening of Jazz Manouche, the style of swing ...
A four-day visit beginning on 11 July. During his visit Sir Peter, who was appointed Master of the Queen's Music in 2004, will travel from the remote Orkney Islands, where he lives, to teach a group of nine advanced composers with the aid of the Ligeti String Quartet.
During his visit Sir Peter, who was appointed Master of the Queen's Music in 2004, will travel from the remote Orkney Islands, where he lives, to teac ...
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