The Britten Sinfonia is the latest UK classical music organisation to turn to the public to help finance a new commission. The Cambridge-based chamber orchestra's new 'A Tenner for a Tenor' campaign will offer contributors £10 'shares' in a new work by Jonathan Dove for the ensemble and tenor Mark Padmore. Supporters will be acknowledged by having their names recorded in the score, and will receive email and video updates as the work is being written. The new piece is set to have its premiere in April 2012 and will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

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