| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 23-Feb-2012 St George's Church, Bloomsbury | A Garland for St. George: Vivamus sing Byrd in Bloomsbury |
There’s a trend amongst programmers nowadays to provide concerts with a ‘hook’: an extra-musical incentive to pull the punters in, or at least help performers pinpoint their pieces. This is all the more prevalent among early music promoters, who suffer from an ever-present anxiety over the relevance of their repertoire – how to attract an audience to come and hear music written centuries ago in a context so wildly removed from our twenty-first-century lives?Read full review... | |