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By Elizabeth Hotson
image captionCaroline last attended Glastonbury in person in 2019 with her husband and daughter
Caroline Burgess-Pike is a huge music festival fan. She normally attends two a year, including the granddaddy of them all, Glastonbury.
This year the PR director from Kent signed up for the Glastonbury Live event.
She says livestreams are a fantastic way to fill the gap when in-person live events are cancelled. They are great for families who might struggle to attend a festival with young children in tow.
During the Covid pandemic, she says livestreams have been important to help support the live music and event industry at such a difficult time .
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Throughout much of the last century, technically showy encores by Paganini and Kreisler were standard fare for violinists, but in recent years players have moved away from the established virtuoso works to embrace everything from solo Bach to folk tunes and contemporary commissions. Charlotte Gardner talks to top players about .
Here’s a memory exercise. Cast your mind back to the various concerts you attended over the couple of years prior to Covid and ask yourself how many times you heard a firmly established artist play one of the old virtuoso encore standards by Paganini, Ernst, Kreisler, Heifetz and chums. Then ask yourself how many times their encores were solo Bach, or something entirely original. I, for one, have heard more of the latter two options, and when I have heard an old virtuoso favourite then it’s been from a young artist.
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By Alex Taylor
image captionThe pandemic has led some artists to find new venues - including hot air balloons
As an international touring DJ with an album to release, Hot Since 82 s hectic schedule for 2020 didn t originally include playing from a hot air balloon.
But then he didn t originally plan on Covid unexpectedly unplugging nightlife as we knew it.
By emptying stages and dancefloors, the pandemic has generated an urgent need to reimagine the live music experience - both for artists and the audience stuck at home.
So, how is Covid reshaping the creative thinking behind live music performances, and what lasting impact could there be?