April Fools Day
Classical Music Daily has celebrated April Fools Day with some outlandish features about classical music on many of the years since we started publishing in 1999. These include The Title - Introducing 'The Pianistic Crown', Climate Justice for Classical Music, A Delius Cookbook, Sing Ye to the Law, Robert Fayrfax - a recent discovery (by Mike Wheeler), Reginald Twiddlebrain - Nights at the Turntable, Movements, Taming the lion, The lost pipers of Iasi, Ask Alice (episode 1), Japanese conducting batons, Classical spam and Avril Ngaire Poisson and Europe.
A selection of articles about April Fools Day
The Title - Introducing 'The Pianistic Crown'
Classical music news. Del Mar-a-Lago Festival - Here are further details about the contemporary music festival mentioned in our April newsletter
Classical music news. April 2023 Newsletter - Our 1 April 2023 PDF newsletter has just been published
A Delius Cookbook - Mike Wheeler reports on unusual rumours from Grez-sur-Loing in France
Ensemble. Sing ye to the Law - Jabez Hogsbarrow reports from the London International Contemporary Composers' Conference
Nights at the Turntable - ... or, Ritter aus der Schallplatte, by Reginald Twiddlebrain, reviewer to the stars. '... enough to make one weep.'
Movements - Not quite a review - but ... with Kelly Ferjutz
Ask Alice - Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh deals with Disgusted of Greater London
Taming the lion - Jabez Dolotz talks to British conductor Sir Henry Collard-Barker about experiences in and out of the concert hall
Ask Alice - Playing 'Fiddler on the Roof' at wedding receptions, with classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - in the first of a new series, Alice McVeigh, cellist, author and 'agony aunt' of classical music, answers your questions
Classical Spam - Professor Oliphant Chuckerbutty returns to investigate the intriguing subject of musicians' unwanted emails ...
Feature - Avril Ngaire Poisson and Europe