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Michael White
The world's oldest music festival continues to fascinate
christmas came early to gloucester last week where, on a sultry august day before an audience in summer shirts and sandals, the cathedral ga...
Tippett was silly and pretentious, but his works are masterpieces
michael tippett: the biography by oliver soden weidenfeld and nicolson, 768pp, £25/$34.95 it’s virtually a law of nature that composers fall...
Schoenberg: The founding father of 'heroic modernism'
arnold schoenberg by mark berry reaktion books, 224pp, £12/$19 arnold schoenberg was a composer much given to statements of sweeping portent...
Surviving Nazism with help from Bach
one hundred miracles by zuzana růžičková (with wendy holden) bloomsbury, 368pp, £18.99/$25 holocaust survivor stories follow a regrettably (...
For music lovers, Versailles is the place to spend Holy Week
catholics will, one hopes, have spent the easter triduum on their knees with open hearts. but those who also managed open ears might have ob...
'People are fascinated by the baffling aspects of Christian belief': an interview with Sir James MacMillan
in a few days’ time, as has become its custom, the concert venue of st john’s smith square in london will revert to something like its origi...
Competitions expose musicians to the brutal truths of concert life
competitions are the marmite of the music world, applauded by the public for their bloodsports element but loathed by plenty of musicians fo...
Is playing sport really a spiritual practice?
ways to go beyond and why they work by rupert sheldrake coronet, 336pp, £20/$25 to be a scientist in modern times has generally meant being ...
What do you get when you cross Cirque du Soleil with Vatican pomp?
something about philip glass i’ve learned over the years is that by asking very little of his music you can sometimes be surprised by what y...
A masterpiece that triumphs over anything that's done to it
lucky readers of this publication won’t remember how the 1970s looked; but with its bad hair, flared jeans and depressing architecture, it w...
Mesmerising and eloquent: The Barbican's Seven Last Words of Christ reviewed
composers have always been wary of writing operas on the life of christ; and passion narratives aside, they haven’t exactly rushed to make i...
Mariss Jansons ranks at the very top of the world league of conductors
foreign orchestras fly into london frequently enough for them to pass unnoticed. but when the bavarian radio symphony came to the barbican l...
The London households that host virtuoso musicians
the saddest funerals are those that mark the end not only of a life but also of a culture that surrounded it; and an example was the funeral...
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