Sir Mark Elder
Tom Service talks to Sir Mark Elder about his life in music and about working with the HallΓ©, the Manchester-based orchestra of which he has been Music Director since 2000.
Tom Service talks to Sir Mark Elder about the legacy that he is leaving behind him after 24 years as Music Director at the HallΓ© Orchestra. He talks to Tom about Charles HallΓ© and his mission to set up an orchestra for all the people of Manchester, and how his ethos is still central to the orchestra today. Not only has mark Elder evolved the sound of the orchestra and transformed music-making in Manchester, putting generations of choral singers associated with the HallΓ© centre stage, but he has forged an identity for HallΓ© as the orchestra to play British music, and particularly the works of Elgar.
Mark Elder also talks to Tom about his tenure at English National Opera, and the current funding crises that face music in the UK. As he prepares to step down from the HallΓ©, he also reflects on how coincidental it is that he should have been destined for Manchester, once the home of his great Uncle. Norman Cocker, who was a well-known organist at the Cathedral there.
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