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"Music Is Never Value Free" - Interview with Aaron Holloway-Nahum

Jonas Pitteljon wrote 11 months ago: This Sunday, 17th of June, the London Symphony Orchestra is hosting a concert by The Riot Ensemble a … more →

Tags: Music & Art, Old Street, The Riot Ensemble, Aaron Holloway-Nahum, St Luke's, LSO, London Symphony Orchestra, Claudia Maria Racovicean, Adam Swayne

Afterlife

blueless wrote 4 years ago: The Panufnik Young Composers Scheme 2008 is a thing of the past – the workshop took place over three … more →

Tags: Joshua Penduck, Sasha Siem, Andrew McCormack, Matthew Sergeant, Maomao Yü, Silk String Quartet, Lang LAng, Ayanna Witter-Johnson, Francisco Coll Garcia

Hommage à Brahms

blueless wrote 4 years ago: I met the writer Nicola Christe on a conducting course at the Morley College this year. When she men … more →

Tags: black wings, Nicola Christe, Times Proms Podcast

Life in Transit

blueless wrote 4 years ago: After completing three pieces in the space of one month – Faerie Tales, Xocolatl and Black Wings – I … more →

Tags: Elizabeth Maconchy, Calendar of Tolerable Inventions from Around the World, Faerie Tales, xocolatl, black wings

Faerie Tales

blueless wrote 4 years ago: Amid the composition of Xocolatl, I took some time off to complete a song cycle which was long overd … more →

Tags: Arthur Conan Doyle, Spiritualism, The Coming of the Fairies, Wilfred Owen, Rudyard Kipling, John Kipling, Shakespeare, John Keats, J. M. Barrie

Vilhelm Hammershøi: The Poetry of Silence

blueless wrote 4 years ago: As one of the readers of this blog pointed out after I published my Hammershøi and Dreyer entry, the … more →

Tags: vilhelm hammershøi, Royal Academy of Arts

Esbjörn Svensson

blueless wrote 4 years ago: While André Previn being one of the jazz pianists of the older generation I admire, Esbjörn Svensson … more →

Tags: Esbjörn Svensson, Esbjörn Svensson Trio, Est, Dan Berglund, Magnus Öström, (strange place for snow), Brad Mehldau, Fred Hersch

André Previn plays songs by ...

blueless wrote 4 years ago: When it comes to choosing the best recording of William Walton’s First Symphony, without any h … more →

Tags: andre previn, William Walton, Michael Kennedy, My Fair lady, PAL JOEY, gigi, Vernon Duke, Vladimir Dukelsky, Autumn in New York

Richard Baker

blueless wrote 4 years ago: Attending new music festivals or weekends is like gambling – sometimes you come away feeling d … more →

Tags: Richard Baker, Learning to Fly, Antoine de Saint Exupery, aaron copland, Huiusmodi sunt omnia, Angelus, Lavinia Greenlaw, Christopher Purves, Written on a train

voir, voie, voix

blueless wrote 5 years ago: I am always suspicious about concert music with electronics – whether live or pre-recorded. I … more →

Tags: Philippe Leroux, Voi(rex), George Benjamin, Antara, Jonathan Harvey, Bhakti, Pierre Boulez, Anthèmes 2, Julian Anderson

The John Tusa Interviews2 comments

blueless wrote 5 years ago: I recently revisited the works on Renzo Piano and recall an interview he did with John Tusa for BBC … more →

Tags: harrison birtwistle, John Tusa, Renzo Piano, louis andriessen, Elliot Carter, Heiner Goebbels, Gyorgy Ligetti

Lukas Foss5 comments

blueless wrote 5 years ago: Last night as I was taking a break from drafting the opening of Xocolatl, I looked at the ‘Top … more →

Tags: American Cantata, American Landscapes, Baroque Variations, Bright Cecilia, Capriccio, Cello Concert, Concerto for the Left Hand, Echoi, Elytres

Hammershøi and Dreyer1 comment

blueless wrote 5 years ago: As I was in Barcelona last June for the Sónar Festival, a friend showed me the catalogue of an exhib … more →

Tags: Nielsen, michael palin, Hammershoi, Sciarrino, Edward Hopper, Painting, Art Gallery, Denmark

In ruhig fliessender Bewegung …

blueless wrote 5 years ago: A friend took me to see Gergiev conducting Mahler’s Second Symphony with the LSO last night. It has … more →

Tags: LSO, London Symphony Orchestra, Valery Gergiev, rachmaninoff, mahler symphonies, Barbican

Minotaur is coming to town ...

blueless wrote 5 years ago: My reaction of hearing Harrison Birtwistle’s music for the first time ever (The Triumph of Tim … more →

Tags: cimbalon, Covent Garden, harrison birtwistle, janacek, Royal Opera House, Saxophone

In my beginning ...1 comment

blueless wrote 5 years ago: Last Sunday morning, all the houses were covered with snow; during the week, there was plenty of sun … more →

Tags: Music, Compose, Create, Panufnik, Colin Matthews, Wallace Stevens, LSO, London Symphony Orchestra, LSO Discovery


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