Letty Stott at Britten Pears Arts Festival of New, Snape Maltings
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From ancient horns to ‘fractured punk’, Britten Pears Arts is offering audiences a lockdown mini-festival of music this weekend.
Festival of New is a whirlwind annual showcase of new projects in development, created on residencies at Snape Maltings by musicians representing a large breadth of musical genres.
Usually, it takes the form of a live weekend at Snape in September but, because of Covid, this year it will be broadcast online.
It takes place on Saturday, February 27 on YouTube Live and tickets are free.
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On radio, Dante and David Bowie became our unexpected guides through lockdown loneliness
This week, Katya Adler held a modern lens to Dante for Radio 4, while Radio 2 and 6 Music marked five years since the death of David Bowie
Dante s Inferno, The Circle of the Thieves, by William Blake
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Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. Let’s hope that’s not going to be the official motto for 2021.
This year does, however, mark seven centuries since the death of Dante Alighieri, the poet of the Divine Comedy. Radio 4 has chosen to celebrate with a slightly bizarre idea: for