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‘An unbroken arc of music’: Bradford prepares for 36-hour odyssey of sound

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 16 May 2025

Event, a highlight of city of culture celebrations, will involve 500 musicians playing everything from Mozart to bhangra

“The whole thing is chaos,” said the conductor Charles Hazlewood, before a weekend art project with the artist Jeremy Deller that will feature Handel on Ilkley Moor at sunrise, disco from a tractor, opera blasted out of modified car sound systems and much more.

“But it will be organised chaos,” added Hazlewood. “An acceptance of chaos … which is what it’s like to live in a city, isn’t it? You have to embrace the chaos.”