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SEPTEMBER 2024

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FEATURES 24 Cover: Holst: Beyond The Planets

Daniel Jaffé explores the extraordinary variety of the composer’s works outside his great masterpiece; plus, a 150th-anniversary display of previously unseen photos 38 Reel lives Conductor Leonard Slatkin looks back at his childhood

days at the very heart of the Hollywood music scene 42 Song and dance man The exhaustive of efforts of folk collector Cecil Sharp

changed the face of English music, reveals Andrew Green 46 A classroom collaboration Charlotte Smith visits the Shireland CBSO Academy, a

Midlands state school where music enjoys top billing 54 Education special How musical outreach work is helping today’s schools

EVERY MONTH 8 Letters 12 The Full Score

The latest news and interviews from the music world 23 Richard Morrison 34 The BBC Music Magazine Interview

Conductor Antonio Pappano talks to Clive Paget about the joys ahead as he takes the reins of the mighty LSO 60 Musical Destinations

John Allison visits the Tsinandali Festival in Georgia 62 Composer of the Month

The famously self-deprecating Imogen Holst was a composer well worth shouting about, says Leah Broad 66 Building a Library

Erik Levi names the best recordings of Schoenberg’s ultra-Romantic orchestral work Pelleas und Melisande 100 Radio & TV 104 Crossword and Quiz 106 Music that Changed Me

Composer, cellist and singer Ayanna Witter-Johnson

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Subscriptions £64.87 (UK); £65 (Europe); £74 (Rest of World) ABC Reg No. 3122 EDITORIAL Plus our favourite Holst work other than The Planets (see p24) Editor Charlotte Smith Brook Green Suite Deputy editor Jeremy Pound The Hymn of Jesus Reviews editor Michael Beek Indra Multi-platform content producer Ste ve Wr i g ht B e ni Mora Cover CD editor A l ic e Pea r son The Mystic Trumpeter

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