Author archive: Nick Breckenfield
by Richard James, Music as Therapy International
What strange and uncertain times we are living in. The past few months have challenged the accepted way of doing things in unprecedented ways, both professionally and personally for millions of us. The widespread effect of coronavirus is inevitably something we have not been spared. The most immediate change for our team was the rapid […]
by Sanitansamble
The difficult situation that is affecting our country has led to the inevitable suspension of all activities related to the Sanitansamble youth orchestra, from the Sanità neighbourhood, and from the Piccola Orchestra di Forcella, located in the Forcella neighbourhood of Naples. For the students and teachers, it has been a hard time, being in […]
by Bridget Kinneary, MitMachMusik
The MitMachMusik Project in Berlin, an education initiative to introduce children with a migration background to music instruction and foster integration by including local children in Berlin, navigates the Corona Crisis. “Turn it a little higher… right… not too tight… like this,” says the teacher before singing the pitch A through a video call, hoping […]
by Nick Breckenfield
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 […]
by Debra Boraston
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. […]
by Debra Boraston and Nick Breckenfield
A SPECIAL TRIBUTE TO FRANCO BUITONI MARKING 15 YEARS OF BORLETTI-BUITONI TRUST The setting was a rain-swept, autumnal Sunday afternoon in the historic Umbrian hilltop town of Perugia in Italy. The frequent downpours did not deter the hordes of people crowding into the centre for the annual Euro Chocolate Festival – and nor did it […]
