This month the Orchestra made its first visit to China since 2017, and its first with Music Director Vasily Petrenko. Performing concerts in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Jiageng Changsha, Wuhan and Nanjing with our Principal Cello Richard Harwood and star violinist Ray Chen as soloists, we drew large audiences in each city, and made a significant impact and helped forge lasting relationships with performing arts organisations across China.
On Thursday 1 August, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra made its annual appearance at the BBC Proms with a concert of Ives, Ravel, Debussy and Tchaikovsky, with Music Director Vasily Petrenko conducting and pianist Denis Kozhukhin.
After three strokes, Jenni Moore is still keeping a beat and a smile.
In an AdventHealth Central Florida neurology wing, Moore was jamming away on a xylophone with the hospital’s developing program “Strokestra,” an ensemble of musicians and stroke patients making music to encourage positive healing.
Forty years ago, John Williams was already hugely well-known to audiences in America and around the world. By 1984, he had already composed dozens of film scores, including Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Superman, Star Wars, E.T. and Raiders of the Lost Ark.
