The Frenchman composed Jeux for the Ballets Russes in 1911-12, after getting excited by Stravinsky’s Petrushka. He decided to go one better bur went too far for public tolerance. Jeux never really caught on, partly […]
Scientists in Austria have reconstructed what Mozart might have looked like from the structure of his skull. He looks like a disaffected member of a short-life boy bank The post If this is Mozart, was […]
A friend came back fro KOKO last night, enthusing about a gig by cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and his pianist sister, Isata. There were 800 young people crowding out the venue, having a really good time. […]