Liv Feilden, member of The Phoenix Voices, describes how it was to record for BBC Radio 3 as part of Adopt a Music Composer 2020/21.
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Post date: Wednesday, 6 July 2022 - 1:52pm
Liv Feilden, member of The Phoenix Voices, recounts how her music group's premiere of Lucy Callen's compositions went, as part of Adopt a Music Composer 2020/21.
Post date: Friday, 1 July 2022 - 10:30am
Dominic Matthews, experimental composer from Manchester, discusses the power of community, accessibility and exploring new music with leisure-time music group Singing for Pleasure.
Getting started
‘...a great opportunity to properly address one of my key interests as a composer, which is to make new music more accessible and understandable to everyone’
Post date: Thursday, 23 June 2022 - 12:39pm
Following on from a Making Music promoters event, Barbara Eifler, Making Music Chief Executive, recaps the importance of promoters and artists managers working together and understanding each other.
Around 400 of Making Music’s members don’t play or sing themselves, but present professional musicians, soloists or small ensembles in a concert or in a festival.
Post date: Thursday, 23 June 2022 - 12:15pm
Wendy Barnaby, member of Sussex Chorus, takes us through 100 remarkable years of her group.
Post date: Thursday, 23 June 2022 - 11:18am
The Charity Commission are asking for submissions to a consultation on their approach to annual returns, and a new set of questions they propose to ask in the annual return itself.
Registered charities in England and Wales with an annual income over £10,000 must complete an annual return of some form – so proposed changes may affect your group.
Post date: Tuesday, 14 June 2022 - 12:58pm
Manvinder Rattan introduces the Voices Foundation, and how you can support its work to help children find their voices and become adult choir members of the future.
Post date: Tuesday, 7 June 2022 - 11:05am
Ann Westwood, president of the Glasgow Orchestral Society, recounts their first encounters with music creator Joshua Brown as part of their Adopt a Music Creator 2022 collaboration.
Post date: Friday, 27 May 2022 - 1:31pm
Barbara Eifler, Making Music Chief Executive, explains why removing barriers can be in the interest of your music group.
You will have noticed that Making Music has been providing information and support to member groups on access and inclusion.
But perhaps we have not explained exactly why.
Is it because everyone is doing it and we feel the need to jump on the band wagon and be seen to do something when everyone else is?
Well, no. Actually, there are two distinct reasons for this work.
Post date: Friday, 27 May 2022 - 1:04pm
Community Matters is undertaking research into the costs of hiring community spaces across the UK.
Suitable spaces for music making and performance are essential for leisure-time music groups. Groups need rehearsal and performance spaces that are fit for purpose, financially and physically accessible, and with suitable transport links. Post-pandemic, it has sadly become even harder than before to find such spaces, especially with adequate ventilation.
