Ivan Hewett is the Chief Music Critic at Yahoo News. He covers a wide range of themes in the arts and entertainment sector, focusing on music genres, the music business, and the intersection of fine art and pop culture. His work has been featured in notable publications including Yahoo News, The Telegraph, and AOL UK.
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Ivan Hewett's coverage primarily revolves around classical music and entertainment events in the United Kingdom. He predominantly writes reviews and provides event coverage.
If you are involved in the classical music industry or organizing related events, consider reaching out to Ivan with press releases about upcoming performances, festivals, or new album releases. Additionally, if you have insights into composers or specific pieces of classical music that may be of interest to his audience, providing this information could be well-received by him.
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The death of great tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins at the age of 95 breaks one of the last remaining links to jazz's heroic post-war age.
Verdi's story of the “fallen woman” almost rescued by the love of a good man can still wring the heart, no matter how many times you've seen it.
If you were asked to name the commanding, larger-than-life characters in the classical music world, it's unlikely that an artists' agent would feature on your list.
If you were asked to name the commanding, larger-than-life characters in the classical music world, it’s unlikely that an artists’ agent would feature on your list. But you’d be wrong. Some of them are big globe-trotting personalities, on first-name terms with top businessmen and culture ministers as well as musicians.
Even when it was composed in 1718, Handel’s Acis and Galatea must have seemed a piece of pure escapism. The London sophisticates who were invited to the premiere in the Army Paymaster’s brand-new, swanky house in Middlesex saw a charming tale in the age-old pastoral genre, in which the shepherd Acis and sea-nymph Galatea warbled tunefully and endlessly about the joys of nature and being in love. The guests must have been dying for a break and a glass of madeira, but eventually the arrival of the
Spring has well and truly sprung, and classical music is bursting out all over, like blossom. The concert season still has a month or two to run, while at the same time the festival season is springing into life. The Proms is the biggest of them all (and you can read my pick of the programme here) but there are dozens of other wonderful festivals all round the country, some of which are picked out below, among the most promising concerts of the coming months.
The idea that only a Russian conductor can bring out the soul of Russian music seems reprehensible nowadays.
Despite his reputation as a conservative figure, the composer’s ability to explore timeless human experiences remains indispensable
The company launches its four-year project with a humanly complex – and surprisingly moving – production of Das Rheingold
It seems no challenge is too big for Grange Park Opera . On Sunday night, the company launched its four-year project to present Wagner's huge
