EDITORIAL
In this job, classical music tends to follow me wherever I go. Popping into my local hospital earlier this year for a routine blood test, my waiting-room companions and I were treated to the sound of an aria floating through the corridors. After my appointment, I wandered down the hall to find mezzo Katie Macdonald and pianist David Palmer delighting an audience of patients and visitors. This brief – but hugely positive – experience got me thinking about the musicians and organisations who bring the joy of live music into healthcare settings. In this issue’s cover feature Clarissa Payne finds out exactly how organisations are able to do just that (p22). Talking to ENO, Live Music Now and Breathe Arts Health Research (the team behind the performance I came across after being patched up), we discover how the collaborations come about, and hear how they have impacted participants.
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Elsewhere in the issue, Freya Parr learns how crowdfunding is indispensable – not only for sourcing funds in today’s rather inhospitable financial climate, but for making audiences feel part of the project-planning process and drawing in new demographics (p18). Some of these listeners may have arrived via the wealth of imaginative, tastebroadening playlists currently available online. Glyn Môn Hughes wades into the multitude of streaming options out there to find out which platform works best for the many ways we listen (p25).
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Following a Proms season that itself experienced an influx of new audiences – with almost half of all concertgoers attending the Proms for the first time (p8) – we hear from former festival director Sir Nicholas Kenyon about how the series has evolved to remain relevant to changing UK audiences.
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Away from the concert platform, RPS general manager Harriet Wybor offers her insight into what it takes to be a successful arts administrator (p14), and Oxford University Press celebrates its 100th anniversary (p30).
For musicians looking forward to autumn and winter tours, ISM head of legal Stuart Darke’s helpful advice on what to look out for in your touring contracts will prove invaluable (p40), and for those looking further ahead, our guide to touring Canada provides useful guidance for those considering bringing their talents to northern audiences (p42).
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Our final thoughts for this issue come from conductor Duncan Ward ahead of a pair of ‘homecoming’ concerts with the LSO later this season (p50). CM
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