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BIZARRE: The royal academy of music - What They Never Told You

Making earwax melt and teeth rattle: the project returning music to our bodies

Listeners in the 17th and 18th centuries experienced music in a startlingly vivid – and physical way. A fascinating academic project is wondering if we should let ourselves be much more moved, and get moving. Plus: a prime minister’s musical legacy?

The Guardian - UK

Former Jethro Tull arranger and keyboardist Dee Palmer has died, aged 88

Dee Palmer worked on Tull's classic early 70s albums and was the band's keyboardist from 1976 to 1980

Louder

Royal Academy of Music launches new funding scheme for state-educated students only

Conservatoire says the scheme will help ‘those who desperately need and deserve it’

The Independent UK

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Betty Hudson obituary

Other lives: Inspirational music teacher and talented pianist who studied in Hungary with the composer and educationist Zoltán Kodály

The Guardian - UK

Helen George — things you didn't know about the Call the Midwife star

Helen George has starred in Call the Midwife from the start, but what else is there to know about her?

WhatToWatch

Laurence Olivier’s former voice coach now considered UK’s ‘oldest’ podcaster

George Hall is said to be the ‘oldest’ podcaster in the UK after creating a short-series podcast about his encounters with various actors.

The Independent UK

Young working-class people being ‘blocked’ from creative industries, study finds

Sutton Trust calls for improved access to creative education and industry dominated by upper middle-class

The Guardian - UK

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Raymi Saldaña Rojas obituary

Other lives: Talented multi-instrumentalist who performed and recorded music from the Andean region of South America

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Don Giovanni Tenorio; Ariodante – review

Elegant Handel and a fizzing production of Gazzaniga’s rarely seen take on Don Giovanni provided two fine showcases for the next generation of opera talent

The Guardian - UK

Artful lodgers: everything you need to know about being a lodger or hosting one in your home

With the cost-of-living crisis hitting renters and homeowners alike, taking in or becoming a lodger can help make ends meet

Evening Standard

Francis Monkman obituary

Multi-instrumentalist with Curved Air and Sky who composed the soundtrack to The Long Good Friday

The Guardian - UK

Controlling behaviour, emotional abuse – is classical music teaching broken?

Music students are speaking out about their experiences during their studies, many for the first time

Evening Standard

Jackie Hartley obituary

Other lives: Classical violinist who co-led the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra for seven years

The Guardian - UK

Simon & Garfunkel Story at the Civic Theatre

'I think that they are timeless and brilliant because of the interesting way that Paul Simon writes songs.'

Newcastle Herald

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Ukrainian sisters lodging in Northumberland turn out to be musical prodigies

Strangers stopped to listen in the street when the windows were open and the girls from refugee family were practising

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