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In this issue
The Sixteen
The world-renowned choir is in great spirits at 45 years old, conductor Harry Christophers tells Andrew Stewart.
Symphonies by the sea
Andrew Green unfolds his deckchair as he investigates the erstwhile phenomenon of British seaside orchestras.
Harmonic progression
Big, brash and often over-the-top: Prog Rock, classical music’s pop cousin, is introduced by Meurig Bowen
Do Notes Win Votes? - There are multi-dimensional ways that music is used by political campaigners and their supporters today.
It was a little bit of history repeating when Rishi Sunak announced the UK General Election to the heckling of his political opponents blasting out D:Ream's 'Things Can Only Get Better'.
![Do Notes Win Votes? - There are multi-dimensional ways that music is used by political campaigners and their supporters today.](https://reseuro.magzter.com/100x125/articles/8941/1766585/5UnocOJgM1721799553771/crp_Packham-HandelDr-Kendra-Packham-Brian-Cox-Judas-Maccabeus-Downing-Street-Politics-music-UK-politics-Hendel-History-elections-campaign-soundtracks.jpg)
2 mins
Richard Morrison- Do Classical Works About Mortality Reveal More To Us As We Get Older? Is it inevitably true that, as we journey through the decades, we are better able to interpret or empathise with a profoundly death-obsessed masterpiece such as Schubert's Winterreise?
As we get older do we respond differently to that vast canon of music dealing with mortality? Is it inevitably true that, as we journey through the decades, we are better able to interpret or empathise with a profoundly death-obsessed masterpiece such as Schubert's Winterreise? Or do human beings possess such a flexible sense of empathy that we can relate to virtually any state of mind if it is evoked convincingly enough by a composer?
![Richard Morrison- Do Classical Works About Mortality Reveal More To Us As We Get Older? Is it inevitably true that, as we journey through the decades, we are better able to interpret or empathise with a profoundly death-obsessed masterpiece such as Schubert's Winterreise?](https://reseuro.magzter.com/100x125/articles/8941/1766585/dIiGOwerh1721799696889/crp_Mozart-Requiem-Philip-Langridge-Schubert-Southbank-Centre-National-Youth-Orchestra-Richard-Morrison-music-classical-music-classical-works-Verdi-Mahler-composers.jpg)
3 mins
Sweet Sixteen
As The Sixteen celebrates its 45th birthday, founder Harry Christophers speaks to Andrew Stewart about directing a choral powerhouse
![Sweet Sixteen](https://reseuro.magzter.com/100x125/articles/8941/1766585/AjqkZx0je1721797774999/SWEET-SIXTEEN.jpg)
8 mins
Federico Colli
\"At this moment in time we don't need more virtuosi. We need musicians to engage with the philosophy of music
![Federico Colli](https://reseuro.magzter.com/100x125/articles/8941/1766585/C4mdTilZp1721799811287/FEDERICO-COLLI.jpg)
6 mins
Golden years
Young musicians may be physically fit, but with age come the advantages of wisdom and experience
![Golden years](https://reseuro.magzter.com/100x125/articles/8941/1766585/tZan7qfyZ1721798284945/GOLDEN-YEARS.jpg)
6 mins
Symphonies Beside the Sea- Before cinema, the wireless and coach trips cast them adrift, seaside orchestras were once a major holiday attraction
Before cinema, the wireless and coach trips cast them adrift, seaside orchestras were once a major holiday attraction. It's a dimension of music-making that once was integral to many a British holiday experience, yet now has all but vanished. The tide went out, you might say, on the professional seaside (or pier, or spa) orchestra many decades ago. In their glory days, though - perhaps a quarter-century on either side of 1900-these ensembles were everywhere, from Bridlington to Eastbourne, New Brighton to Worthing, Blackpool to Bexhill-on-Sea, Cleethorpes to Brighton... the list is astonishing.
![Symphonies Beside the Sea- Before cinema, the wireless and coach trips cast them adrift, seaside orchestras were once a major holiday attraction](https://reseuro.magzter.com/100x125/articles/8941/1766585/FCEH6glia1721798672084/crp_instrumental-make-ups-repertoire-coastal-music-classically-trained-musicians-orchestras-beside-the-sea-coast-orchestras-history-summer-concerts-musicians-Blackpool-London-orchestra-seaside-music-music-seaside-orchestra-seaside-orchestra-history.jpg)
6 mins
Harmonic Progression
What happens when classical music-style levels of ambition, invention and sheer length are brought to pop? The answer, as Meurig Bowen explains, is Prog Rock
![Harmonic Progression](https://reseuro.magzter.com/100x125/articles/8941/1766585/V9j2f5DS01721798878315/HARMONIC-PROGRESSION.jpg)
6 mins
Discovering Donizetti - Thanks to a two-year lockdown project, nearly 200 previously lost Donizetti songs will now see the light of day
Thanks to a two-year lockdown project, nearly 200 previously lost Donizetti songs will now see the light of day. For most people, undertaking a lockdown project meant learning to bake sourdough bread, getting fit with Joe Wicks, or taking up a language. But Professor Roger Parker, the eminent historian of Italian opera and emeritus professor at King's College London, had something far more ambitious in mind. He set about unearthing songs by Gaetano Donizetti - many of which had been lost since the composer's lifetime - and the enterprise turned into a two-year labour of love.
![Discovering Donizetti - Thanks to a two-year lockdown project, nearly 200 previously lost Donizetti songs will now see the light of day](https://reseuro.magzter.com/100x125/articles/8941/1766585/7nauFjrR81721799321182/crp_DISCOVERING-DONIZETTI.jpg)
6 mins
Västra Karup Sweden
The spirit of soprano Birgit Nilsson is alive and well in the town of her birth, home to a festival dedicated to her memory
![Västra Karup Sweden](https://reseuro.magzter.com/100x125/articles/8941/1766585/6bLj2fZtw1721800048581/VSTRA-KARUP-SWEDEN.jpg)
3 mins
Composer of the month - Bohuslav Martinů - Though the Czech absorbed many influences from his exile abroad, his colourful music was always distinctively his own
The youngest of six, Bohuslav was a sickly child, and his father or older sister often had to carry him the 193 steps up to the tower. He was shy at school, too, though showed an early talent for the violin and gave his first concert at 14. By the following year, the future composer was off to the Prague Conservatoire to take the first, if faltering, steps towards a career in music.
![Composer of the month - Bohuslav Martinů - Though the Czech absorbed many influences from his exile abroad, his colourful music was always distinctively his own](https://reseuro.magzter.com/100x125/articles/8941/1766585/l07DtOH5t1721801809608/crp_Bohuslav-Martin-soundworldmusic-composer-Polika-Bohuslav-musics-jazz-Czech-folk-Prague-Conservatoire-to-take-the-first-if-faltering-career-in-music-music-jazz.jpg)
6 mins
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Publisher: Our Media Ltd
Category: Music
Language: English
Frequency: Monthly
BBC Music Magazine is a monthly classical music magazine published by Immediate Media Company. It was first published in 1992 and is the best-selling classical music magazine in the world.
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