Much fuss is being made around Jeanine Tessori’s ‘Grounded’ which launched the Met’s season with a gala premiere last night, the first woman composer to occupy the first-night slot. The opera is a cut-down version […]
Andrew Ford: The Shortest History of MusicOld Street Publishing234 pages, 45 imagesReviewed 21 October 2024 Global musical history digested into just over 200 pages; Ford’s book deftly manages the compression whilst bringing out a wide […]