Andy Martin

E New Year’s Day orchestras around the world celebrate the music of glittering Imperial Vienna -the polkas, the marches, the gallops and most of all the waltzes.

The Rick Wakeman Yuletide Christmas Show

Wigglesworth Conducts Walton

The new chief conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra has been warming up for his home debut in arguably the most appropriate location. Vienna, the music capital of the world, conducting the Vienna Philharmonic.

For a few minutes at the end of Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra’s latest concert, Lighthouse Poole was transformed into one huge disco with pretty much the entire audience on its feet, dancing down memory lane.

Charities honouring the memories of two inspirational young men who lost their lives are coming together for a special fundraising event.

Story has it when Gustav Holst cycled to Bournemouth to proudly show Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra founder and conductor Dan Godfrey his score of The Planets, he was mistaken for the delivery boy.

The power, beauty and emotion of music often reflects and recalls times in our lives.

The musicians of the world-beating Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra are nothing if not versatile.