Description: The Prize Racket - the fourth Stockwell Park Orchestra novel - will be published on 20th January 2022. 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’…
The Prize Racket – the fourth Stockwell Park Orchestra novel – will be published on 20th January 2022.
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 worrie
The Wedding Piper is a free Stockwell Park Orchestra short story, available to download. When an English father arranges for Stockwell Park Orchestra to play at his daughter’s wedding, little does he know that the Welsh mum of the groom has arranged for a bagpiper to do so too…