Saturday, 31 December 2011
Last year I put together a lengthy look at good stuff I’d seen, heard and read. To close this year, here are some much briefer notes on some of the best things I encountered in the last 12 months. Richard Craig, Inward — Without a doubt the best disc of new music I’ve heard this year, […]
Translation of Richard Rijnvos’s acceptance speech of the Matthijs Vermeulen Award 2011.
Here’s an anecdote to herald in 2011: ‘At one time Karlheinz [Stockhausen] and I would talk and exchange ideas. You know the story about the talk about singing? Well, he was writing a song for Cathy Berberian, who I later also wrote for, and he said, “if you were writing for a singer, would you write […]
As the end of the year approaches, here are some of the best things that I have read, seen and heard in the past twelve months. Two major, large-scale performances this autumn made an impact on me. The London Sinfonietta’s concert of Lachenmann at the Southbank Centre in October was one. I already knew the […]
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Tagged A Town Called Panic, Amir Nizar Zuabi, Aurélio Edler-Copês, Centre Acanthes, Dogtooth, Helmut Lachenmann, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Joanna Newsom, London Sinfonietta, musikFabrik, My Son My Son What Have Ye Done, Olafur Eliasson, Quatuor Diotima, Rebecca Saunders, ShiberHur, Southbank Centre, Tony Judt, Washington Phillips, Werner Herzog
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Tuesday, 23 November 2010
In celebration of Helmut Lachenmann’s 75th birthday, University of Manchester new music ensemble Vaganza are presenting two concerts of his music this Friday. A free lunchtime concert will see Ad Solem Chamber Choir perform Lachenmann’s Consolation II alongside works by students, including Tom Coult and Joy Chou. The evening sees a more thorough examination of […]