After a brief and disastrous Resident Poet episode, Stockwell Park Orchestra is invited to take part in a TV competition for classical music. For a £50,000 prize some competitors are tempted to stretch the genre to ‘crossover’ and beyond. Can a full concert orchestra compete with jazz bands, horn quartets, harp ensembles, and Mrs Ford-Hughes singing in Portuguese with nine cellos? Or will the competition be derailed by the poet’s return, this time sporting live Ambient Sounds? The TV producers aren’t worried: they know a good fight means great ratings. What was supposed to be a quirky diversion threatens to take over the orchestra’s rehearsals for their own concert, but discovering a voting scam means they must fix things in the TV studio first.
| ISBN: | 9781788423991 |
| Publication date: | 28th January 2022 |
| Author: | Isabel Rogers |
| Publisher: | Farrago an imprint of Duckworth Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 304 pages |
| Series: | The Stockwell Park Orchestra Series |
| Genres: |
Humorous Fiction Modern and Contemporary Fiction Crime and Mystery Humour Non-Fiction Art music, orchestral and formal music Contemporary romance Wind instruments Comic (Humorous) Crime and Mystery |