Messages of hope...

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Tom Service talks to the American composers Michael Gordon and Julia Wolfe about Bang on a Can’s live-streamed music marathon, the nine works receiving their world premiere over the course of the event, and how the project explores artistic responses in times of crisis. We’re joined by composer Tania León and flautist and composer Nathalie Joachim, two musicians taking part in this marathon, who reflect on what it means to be an artist in America today and how this COVID-19 watershed can be a catalyst to help reshape things to come. As the school year starts, we've an update from James Dickinson, Head of Hull Music Hub and Chair of The UK Association for Music Education, about how are schools in England coping with music tuition after the coronavirus. We also hear another instalment from our ‘musicians in our time’ series with the violinist Rakhi Singh.