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Boomtown 2011

BOOM! – so summer is officially over and there goes the festival season too unless you are heading for world parties in the southern hemisphere. This summer, avoiding the Big One, I pitched my tent at the Isle of Wight …   Continue reading

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New Music – The Fantastic Mr Ferneyhough

What is often referred to as “New” music can be challenging, and Brian Ferneyhough (above right, with the great Irvine Arditti of the eponymous Quartet) a man who is perhaps frighteningly known as the Father of New Complexity, produces work …   Continue reading

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Looking back at 2010 in London

It’s the end of the year, and I’m sitting listlessly late at night in my study, pondering on the development of yet another obsession. Perhaps that’s to overstate, but according to my box of used ticket stubs I went to …   Continue reading

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