Choirs have been enjoying quite a lot of publicity of late, at least on the radio. Read More
I vividly remember, as an impressionable schoolboy in the 1970s, watching a television documentary in which this strange figure with devilishly piercing eyes, demonic curly hair, and a motley band of lunatic musicians he called The Fires of London, spoke of his music with alarming clarity, intelligence and self-belief. Read More
Taverner was the leading English composer of his generation, and one of the most influential of English composers. He was born ... Read the full John Taverner bio.