When did you last hear a concerto for squeezebox and symphony orchestra?
It’s a refreshingly agreeable alternative bit of Bournemouth programming.
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Born in October 1921 and active in every style of contemporary music from serialism to classicism, the Turkish composer Ilhan Usmanbaş died today in a care facility. He composed 120 published scores, many of them […]
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 […]
The image below has gone up on a wall at the stage door of the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington DC, days after the Veep was booed at a symphony concert. View […]
