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 […]
By Chris
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Posted in Odds & Ends
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Also 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, Washington Phillips, Werner Herzog
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“If we remain grotesquely unequal, we shall lose all sense of fraternity: and fraternity, for all its fatuity as a political objective, turns out to be the necessary condition of politics itself.” I’ve just got round to finishing Tony Judt’s excellent essay on the importance of the state printed in the Guardian Review the weekend […]
By Chris
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Posted in Musings
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Also tagged politics, quotes
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