Posts for March 2013

In recent years I have developed something of a ‘thing’ about the vibraphone in jazz, not quite a passion, but cer…

In a three part blog, London-based composer Michael Zev Gordon guides us through the process of writing a commissioned…

Music has always brought such joy into my world. Music has always told me stories and conjured pictures, even as a chi…

The Tallis Scholars are one of the most globally successful and enduring exponents of a capella choral music, and are …

What I like about the Cheltenham Jazz Festival is that the programme covers a huge range of music. From big names, wel…

Acclaimed film critic Mark Kermode joins us on the opening night of Cheltenham Music Festival for a ‘night at th…

For me, the appearance of Dave Douglas and his quintet with vocalist Heather Masse is a real Jazz Festival highlight. …

Could events that take place before we’re even born really affect our future career choices? Pupils from Gloucester …

When you’ve been assembling the hugely varied contents of this Music Festival programme for 18 months and more, as D…

I can think of no other Music Festival that has such a strong thread of family events as Cheltenham does and I am exce…

Alan Fitzsimmons is one of the project leaders of the Pan-STARRS project, which looks for new objects in the night sky…

Gabby Young and Other Animals will be bringing their unmissable musical extravaganza to this year’s Cheltenham J…

Bringing together British and Norwegian musicians 5.30 pm: sax player Marius Neset arrives hot-foot from Copenhagen.…

Kicking off the Cheltenham Festivals season in style, the Jazz Festival promises a May Bank Holiday weekend to remembe…

Twitter has rapidly become one of my main sources of scientific information. I follow scientists, science communicator…