I attended the former church last night for a concert by the ‘radical’ Manchester Collective, a string quartet playing works by contemporary British composers. Nothing to frighten the horses, though I was much taken with […]
Yale School of Music comes to New York this Monday. “Rippling with high-energy percussion and brass playing and a fluid interplay of polished strings as well as winds…” is how The New York Times described […]
Alastair Macaulay writes movingly about a musician he greatly admired: John Cage (1912-1992) died thirty-two years ago today, a few weeks before his eightieth birthday. Merce Cunningham, his life partner, came home from rehearsals […]