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Genesis Suite – mediocre music, great idea

Posted on February 2, 2018February 4, 2018 by Michael Church
Genesis Suite, Barbican, 13.1.18   In 1943, as news of the Holocaust and the mass flight of refugees was coming through, a Jewish New York musician named Nat Shilkret had an idea for a musical re... Read More

The LSO Metamorphosen…

Posted on December 14, 2017December 14, 2017 by Michael Church
Simon O’Neill/Christian Gerhaher/London Symphony Orchestra/Simon Rattle: Barbican, 13.12.17   The last major work composed by Richard Strauss, and also by a mile the most beautiful, Metamorphos... Read More

The Barbican’s new Centre for Music – the case against

Posted on January 15, 2016March 21, 2017 by Michael Church
(The first in an irregular series of musical blogs.) From now on, every time Simon Rattle raises his baton at the Barbican he will offer a hostage to fortune: the more musically successful the concert... Read More

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