The French composer and conductor Pierre Boulez lived for sixty years across the border in Baden-Baden and is buried there. Next year is the centenary of his birth. The town of Baden-Baden is planning its […]
Anything that rouses us to love can also provoke the opposite condition. Music is no exception. There are works we detest almost as much as many others we adore. I am interested in why we […]
Everyday Non-sense; works by Shiomi, Schmit, Higgins, Mozart, Kurtág, Cage, PatKop, Françaix and Ligei Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin/voice/vacuum cleaner); members of Aurora Orchestra. Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London, 24.04.2024 The force of […]