Month: May 2020

Over the past months since the first BBT Communities grants were announced in June 2019, we have been getting to know the five organisations across Europe. Indeed, our chief executive Susan Rivers was to have been writing a blog about visiting all of them, having been to Berlin to see MitMachMusik with our founder Ilaria […]

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Adapting to Lockdown:
Comfortable Classical online

The performing arts have to remain active even in times of crisis and do not have to destroy themselves through a free oversupply Helmut Mauró, Suddeutsche Zeitung, 2 May 2020 Dear friends, today we’ll speak up. And even though I, who I am writing the text, speak for our entire ensemble, it’s easier if I […]

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Music for Free?

Bas les masques is a French expression from the 17th century with origins in theatre where a mask was an accessory of deception. The idiomatic English translation is ‘no more pretending’. Well, there’s certainly no more pretending about Covid-19 and the fact that coming out of lockdowns around the world will be slow and gradual. […]

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Musing on Masks

Not being able to play in theatres because of Coronavirus has led me to set myself a personal goal – not to see it as a limitation, but as a chance to create something never done before. I immediately asked myself during the first day of the lockdown where to start and I came up […]

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Lockdown Commission For Singing Percussionist Simone Rubino