VIDEO PODCAST: Come and meet Eric Fraad of Heresy Records, Kenneth Woods, musical director of Colorado MahlerFest and the English Symphony Orchestra and others in our hour-long March 2021 video.
CENTRAL ENGLAND: Mike Wheeler's concert reviews from Nottingham and Derbyshire feature high profile artists on the UK circuit - often quite early on their tours.
DISCUSSION: Defining Our Field - what is 'classical music' to us, why are we involved and what can we learn from our differences? Read John Dante Prevedini's essay, watch the panel discussion and make your own comments.
Outspoken American harmonica player, showman, composer and human rights activist Larry Adler was born in Baltimore on 10 February 1914 and died in London on 6 August 2001, aged 87.
Adler studied at Baltimore City College and the Peabody Conservatory, and won the 1927 Maryland Harmonica Championship. His first orchestral date as soloist was with the Sydney Symphony in 1939. He went on to fame, playing arrangements of classical concertos and works composed specially for him by composers such as Hindemith and Vaughan Williams, and touring Europe and Japan.
He settled in England in the 1950s, after becoming involved with the defence of those investigated for 'un-American activities'. He also wrote music for films, notably Genevieve, High Wind in Jamaica, King and Country and The Great Chase.