‘the trumpet takes the role of the voice’ Trumpet soloist Matilda Lloyd on arias and performing up North
The last decade has been good to Matilda Lloyd. In 2014, she won the BBC Young Musician of the...
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Category: Bands & Gigs
‘divine’ The Dream of Gerontius, The Hallé, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Oh, what a night. In front of a packed Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, the Hallé Orchestra and...
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‘reined-in cool’ SBT, Eagle Inn, Salford
There’s a pronounced tendency in pop for its female practitioners to be defined by...
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Eurovision: ‘Before I knew it, I was singing Euphoria’ Northern Soul meets Loreen
Ten-year-old me wouldn’t believe it. Meeting Eurovision contestants was a childhood dream. And yet...
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OperaWatch: Jasdeep Singh Degun
There is a moment in the introduction to the film Field of Dreams where the main protagonist, Ray...
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