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Preview: Shostakovich – Orango (prologue) / Philharmonia Orchestra
Tweet this. By Rob Edgar “Shostakovich wrote this prologue, probably played it through but then somebody somewhere said ‘we don’t think so’, and on that it stopped,” Gerard McBurney, a leading expert on the enigmatic Soviet composer, tells me. “There’s no scholarly proof as to why this happened but my guess is that a moment […]
Preview: Pioneers Of Electronic Music Festival
February 14, 2013 by Culture Capital
Tweet this. This on Londonist today… Composer Gabriel Prokofiev, founder of the classical club series Nonclassical, is presenting an ambitious electronic music festival in East London in March. Running from 6 to 17 March, the event wraps together performances, film screenings, talks and workshops at venues including The Macbeth in Hoxton, the Hackney Picturehouse, Rio […]
London stars in new Sam Lee music video
January 30, 2013 by Culture Capital
From Londonist today… Sam Lee, has released a new music video ahead of this evening’s BBC Folk Awards. The Mercury Award-nominated singer (who you can hear speaking on Londonist Out Loud here) is up for three gongs at the Glasgow ceremony. London-born Lee, who is also a live music promoter and folk song collector, is filmed […]
Preview: The Rest Is Noise Festival @ Southbank Centre
January 16, 2013 by Culture Capital
One of the most ambitious ever feats of arts programming in London launches this Saturday. The Rest Is Noise festival (TRIN), inspired by New Yorker writer Alex Ross’s seminal book, will chart the music of the 20th century. Starting with Richard Strauss (the book opens with the premiere of Salome) and finishing somewhere around John […]
Preview: Top London Christmas Concerts 2012
December 4, 2012 by Culture Capital
This post was written for Londonist.com. Forget the Oxford Street lights and nauseating John Lewis ad, the Christmas season really starts when churches and venues start filling up for carol concerts and Christmas gigs. Arts venues pitch in with Advent events, creating Christmas music programmes from the traditions of classical, jazz and folk music. Here are 10 […]
Preview: Brodsky Quartet – Wheel of 4 Tunes @ Kings Place
Kings Place Hall One, Saturday 8th December, 7.30pm The Brodsky Quartet has something very different up its sleeve for the final concert of next weekend’s three-concert series. It may even be a genuine first: a spinning wheel will be allotted the role of deciding the whole concert programme. “It’s our 40th birthday party,” violist Paul Cassidy told me when […]
Preview: London Jazz Festival on a budget
November 2, 2012 by Culture Capital
This post was originally written for Londonist.com. London’s annual ten-day jazz takeover launches a week today (the festival runs from 9 to 18 November) and the 2012 festival is more ambitious than ever. With hundreds of events at dozens of venues, jazz tentacles will spread out across the entire city. Ticket sales for the festival […]
Preview: BBC Proms John Cage Music Walk
August 15, 2012 by Culture Capital
This article was written for Londonist.com. The BBC Proms breaks free from the Royal Albert Hall this week, inviting people on a Music Walk out and about in South Kensington, in a project celebrating 100 years since the birth of revolutionary American composer John Cage. Ten site-specific compositions by well known composers, including Judith Weir […]
Preview: Match&Fuse Festival @ The Vortex, Dalston
June 13, 2012 by Culture Capital
A major free jazz festival comes to Dalston this weekend. A version article was originally written for Londonist.com. Jazz may have been born and grown up in America, but today the music has no one home. Europe is arguably is a more innovative centre for jazz than the US. Reflecting the vitality of European contemporary […]
May 6, 2013 by Culture Capital
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