Let's hear it for the Olympics classical music commissions

New Music 20x12 will consist of 20 works, each lasting 12 minutes, to take place across the UK in celebration of the GamesAfter all the disappointment, drift, dithering and dilly-dallying, today there's a genuine reason to get excited about the musical component of that wee sports meet in 2012. Yes, it's time to put out the bunting for the New Music 20x12 commissions, set up by PRS for Music.There will, thankfully, be more than a new James MacMillan piece and a restaging of Philip Glass's Einste...

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