New Beginnings at Sage Gateshead SAGE Gateshead welcomes music to its stages for the first time in 2021 with a live streamed classical concert. The music centre’s first series of 2021, entitled New Beginnings, starts with one of classical music’s superstars Dame Sarah Connolly joining the Royal Northern Sinfonia and its recently-announced Principal Conductor Designate, Dinis Sousa, at 7.30pm on Friday. Dawn and Dusk is a programme of new beginnings with music that is full of optimism. Opening with the sunrise depicted in the introduction to Haydn’s ‘Le Matin’ (Morning) seems a fitting way to break the silence of the last few months.