Why is sexism still tolerated in our industry? We need an immediate and total change in attitudes across the board. Classical music is not dying (pace yet another overly-enthusiastic report at Slate.com) but there are clearly many problems in the industry. Most of them are brought on by those of us in the business […]
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Jenny Valentish / The Guardian writes: Hanging Rock, VictoriaCave’s voice has never had so much range – and it was on full display at this outdoor show, filled with delirium and wonder As dusk falls, the animals of Hanging Rock become curious onlookers. Kangaroos sit poised on the race track, watching banks of coaches draw […]
From the archives As the Cure gear up to headline Reading and Leeds festival, we return to 1993 with Rock’s Backpages – the world’s leading collection of vintage music journalism – and find Robert Smith deep in conversation with Spin magazine MORE
David Lukes (The Guardian): With a bit of solder and nimble fingers bring a new lease of life to your headphones and avoid shelling out for an expensive new pair. Please continue HERE
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/nov/24/all-doom-and-boom-whats-the-heaviest-music-ever-made
ANDREW CLEMENTS “Seven years have passed since Paul Lewis’s last solo Schubert recording, and this latest collection coincides with his continuing series of Schubert recitals. It groups together the three sonatas of 1825 and 1826 – the earliest of them, in C major D840 just a two-movement torso, the others, in D D850 and G D894, perhaps […]
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/nov/25/frank-zappa-music-documentary-alex-winter
TOM LAMONT The Scottish folk singer on the perils of having a low public profile and the emotional pain behind his latest album. James Yorkston, who for the past decade has been putting out quietly popular albums of modern folk, is sometimes asked to play at the weddings of his most ardent fans. “Extremely flattering, […]
Charles Shaar Murray: Three changes of dress and a kiss from Lou Reed. The waiters were horrified. Jill and Lyn are 17 and they’re into Bowie. They’ve both seen David working three times in as many weeks. They’ve both got Ziggy Stardust and neither of them like Marc Bolan. Jill says she likes the way […]
THE GUARDIAN: The Austrian composer’s first symphony meshed the imagination and narrative of the symphonic poem with the architectural cohesion of earlier models. His crazily ambitious project changed the genre for ever. It’s one of the most spellbinding moments of symphonic inspiration in the 19th century: the opening of Gustav Mahler’s First Symphony. It’s not […]
Originally published May 2015 As a blues man is laid to rest in the Mississippi Delta, questions linger about how he died. Between the white horses and the family intrigue, the thrill is never gone Continues HERE
One day, Bryn Terfel’s eldest son fell asleep at the opera. It was during the first act of Welsh National Opera’s 2010 production of Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg in Cardiff. Only when his father came on and started singing as Hans Sachs, did he awaken. “My first line woke him up. He apparently […]
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ROGER NORRINGTON: Who was it who said that two of the most fascinating things in life are sex and the 18th century? Certainly for lovers of classical music it is a century of quite extraordinary riches: beginning with the late baroque joys of Bach and Handel, overseeing the rise of opera, the sonata, string quartet […]
ERICA JEAL: There are two violinists at work on this recording, and it doesn’t take anything away from Vilde Frang’s exhilarating performance to say so. In Beethoven’s concerto there is nothing remotely laboured about her playing, yet her light touch and unfailingly sweet tone is the vehicle for a satisfyingly large-scale interpretation. In the Stravinsky […]
In the archives we found the following: Hugh Masekela kicks off the first of our exclusive live music sessions from the 2012 Womad music festival with a performance of Louis Armstrong’s Rockin’ Chair. Masekela met Armstrong while studying at the Manhattan School of Music in New York in the early 60s, after leaving South Africa […]