Category: Reviews

  • Steve Reich at 75: LSO at the Barbican

    It is incredible to think that minimalism – be it the aesthetic, compositional technique or style – has existed for over fifty years. Steve Reich has remained at the forefront of its developments and perhaps even its success and it was a fitting tribute to his output and position as composer of significance that the…

  • OUT HEAR: Plus Minus @ Kings Place

    Kings Place has a wonderfully electric programme of events and the concert, in its smaller hall, of a programme entitled ‘Repeat Music’ by the ensemble Plus Minus offered an insight into music of the second half of the twentieth century that was minimal in its design but not in its effect. The opening work ‘Madrigale’…

  • My first concert review

    The editor of http://www.icareifyoulisten.com kindly has permitted me to contribute to the wonderful blog he started last December on ‘new’ music. I wasn’t quite sure what I would be able to contribute and envisaged it might be my usual education related musings. Thomas mentioned reviewing – of which I have done a few books already…

  • I care if you listen

    I am looking forward to contributing over the next week some items to the wonderful blog ‘I Care if you listen’ – edited by the New York based composer Thomas Deneuville. This weekend I will hear a concert of Boulez’s music at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank and my review will appear on the…