New podcast
So we decided to dip our toes into the world of podcasts with this trial one, during which you can find out more about the music featured in our concerts with Robin Ticciati next week (20 May at...
View ArticleHow many arts administrators does it take to…
Last Tuesday the OAE office resounded to the sounds of a drill and much shouting, often along the lines of ‘no, I told you it wouldn’t go there’, or ‘It says part A should slot into part C, but I can’t...
View ArticleTop OAE moments of 2009
With the end of another year just passed, we took the chance to ask members of the office team about their top OAE moments of 2009: Stephen Carpenter, Chief Executive “In August and September 2009, as...
View Article"Cherubini is like Asparagus.." Antony Pay, Clarinet, OAE
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As mentioned below, our concert in Sheffield last week had a rather odd start. The Orchestra came on stage on time for a 7pm start, all fine. We settled in our seats. The Management team of 3 (myself,...
View ArticleMay podcast
We have a brand new podcast just out – in a jam-packed edition we talk to OAE Leader Alison Bury about our upcoming A celebration of Handel concert, take the train down to Glyndebourne to get Principal...
View ArticleMendelssohn’s Scottish Symphony
Here’s the latest of our OAE Extras events to go online, a pre-concert talk from back in September in which OAE Chief Executive and Mendelssohn enthusiast Stephen Carpenter talked about the composer...
View ArticleThe mysterious case of the missing brass…
As any of you who were at our Roundhouse show last week will no doubt be aware, towards the end of the concert we had a rather unusual hiccup. As Sir Mark Elder introduced the last movement of...
View ArticleRemembering Frans Brüggen (1934-2014)
All of us at the OAE were very sad to hear the news of Emeritus Conductor Franz Brüggen, who passed away at the age of 79 earlier this week – a conductor who has had an association with the OAE almost...
View ArticleMendelssohn in Scotland
Former OAE Chief-Executive Stephen Carpenter, now of Mendelssohn in Scotland, is doing a talk before our concert with Sir Andras Schiff. Here he outlines the content of that talk and the journey around...
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