Composer Charlotte Bray Sells New Work, Bar-by-Bar, for Music in the Round Residency

An interesting article over at The Guardian reports on Brit composer Charlotte Bray's novel idea for fundraising her latest piece. She is selling it. One bar at a time.

Yup, for £10 anyone can buy a bar from a work Bray has composed for her residency with Music in the Round at the new Doncaster arts center CAST. Apparently, there are some 300 bars in the work, with plenty still up for grabs.

It's a rather lovely idea (and the piece gets played no matter what). And it's the latest in several lovely and unusual funding ideas over recent years.

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