The NYO, or National Youth Orchestra, has been awarded the highly prestigious Queen’s Medal for Music at a huge London gala. This annual award recognises either a group or an individual that has had a major impact on music in UK. This is the first time that the award has been handed over to an […]
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A look back over the youth Proms
The youth Proms came in thick and fast, with joyous and massively exuberant events from orchestras such as the National Youth Orchestra. The tone was set by the opening, a fantasy by Edgar Varése which is teased out of one single note, that of ‘A’. The piece, entitled Tuning Up, involves shouts of ‘sit down’ […]