Music Diary 2022

The best-selling diary returns for 2022 with a user-friendly portrait format, extra space for weekend appointments, and birthdays of hundreds of famous people in the world of music. Listings of important musical events from 100, 50 and 25 years ago and forthcoming anniversaries up to 2027 are included, alongside a mini directory of concert halls, opera houses, festivals, organisations and recording companies, plus a special article by Iain Farrington on the art of orchestration, marking the 100th anniversary of the premiere of Maurice Ravel’s orchestration of Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky. The cover design for 2022 includes an excerpt from Nixon in China (1987) by John Adams, marking the composer’s 75th birthday.