Sixty-five years ago, Bob Chilcott was submerged in the cockpit of a shattered B-24 bomber that had smacked into the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Malta. “We took a hit over Sicily,” Chilcott ...
BRATTLEBORO -- The door to a practice room at the Brattleboro Music Center has a poster which shows a cartoon outline of a rather friendly-looking gentleman, with the words "Who is Bob?" below it. The ...
He wants to put 400 singers in a railway station, and he loves a bit of Barbra Streisand … composer and conductor Bob Chilcott shares his musical passions How do you listen to music? At home I listen ...
The St. John the Divine Chorale with the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra Ensemble offers the Houston premiere of St. John Passion by Bob Chilcott within the context of a Good Friday service. Chilcott, ...
This article is brought to you by our exclusive subscriber partnership with our sister title USA Today, and has been written by our American colleagues. It does not necessarily reflect the view of The ...
Budleigh Music Festival has revealed its new patron, one of the UK’s best loved composers and choral directors, Bob Chilcott. Described as a ’contemporary hero of British choral music', Bob was ...
Jack Pepper chats with three composers to explore the magic of festive writing. Hot on the heels of Thomas Hewitt Jones… its Bob Chilcott We speak in the middle of a travel-heavy season: in a few ...
Delving deeper into a movement from Bob Chilcott's sublime choral Requiem, we're finding out a little more about the inspiration for this solemn religious work. I wanted a section of my Requiem, set ...
Bob Chilcott’s The Angry Planet caused a stir when it premiered at the Proms in 2012. A heartfelt cry for sense in the climate-change debate, its power lay in the simplicity of children’s voices - ...
The Wheatland Chorale is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, and it did not want to let that milestone go unnoticed. So the group of 52 singers, led by Eric Riley, will be presenting a big, ...