With ear-splitting excess, flamboyant virtuosity and a talent for transgression, where classical music has led, metal has followed. Let’s hope the Philharmonia’s Metal Orchestrated concert turns it u…
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‘She made it sound like the cosmos breathing’: the revival of jazz harpist and pianist Alice Coltrane ⊕⊕
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
The radical work of the musician and composer was dismissed by sexist critics and overshadowed by the legacy of her late husband John. But today, musical stars from Doja Cat to David Byrne all champi…
3 months ago
Masterpiece, fridge magnet, phone case … opera: how Hokusai’s The Great Wave hit the stage ⊕⊕
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He survived a stroke, a lightning strike, a fire – and created one of the world’s most recognisable images. Now the Japanese artist’s ‘wild, fascinating’ life has inspired an opera
Opera has inspired …
4 months ago
‘He was, above all, a treasured spirit, who understood how vital music is for the human soul’: tributes to Andrew Clements ⊕⊕
In the week that we mourn the death of the Guardian’s long-serving classical music critic, composers, performers, colleagues and others who knew and worked with him pay tribute to a writer whose pass…
Igor Stravinsky: Late Works album review – kudos to Reuss for bringing this spellbinding music to life ⊕⊕
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Noord Nederlands Orkest and Cappella Amsterdam breathe colour and light into work from the composer’s most austere period
In his later…
BBCNOW/Bancroft/Gerhardt review – intriguing connections, magic and melancholy beauty ⊕⊕
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Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff
An imaginatively programmed concert featured Anders Hillborg alongside Sibelius and Shostakovich – with Alban Gerhardt the impeccable soloist in the latter’s second cello conce…
5 months ago
‘Lunch could last all day – and night’: inside Coco Chanel’s sun-kissed sanctum for art’s superstars ⊕
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The French fashion designer’s lavish Mediterranean villa was frequented by everyone from Dalí to Garbo to Stravinsky to Churchill. It has now been lovingly restored – with a thrillingly bolstered lib…
6 months ago
Moving beyond bar lines: composer Nico Muhly on dancers reimagining his music ⊕
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Choreographers hear, somehow, a larger heartbeat; it’s fascinating and revelatory to have them reinterpret your compositions, writes the US musician, ahead of a triple bill featuring his music coming…
8 months ago
‘It really bores me’: Wayne McGregor on why he won’t spell out his striking dance creations ○
The choreographer has paired the tragedies of Oedipus Rex and Antigone in a monumental double bill, Jocasta’s Line, which refuses to spoon-feed audiences
When Stravinsky composed Oedipus Rex in 1927, …
9 months ago
Everything We Do Is Music by Elizabeth Alker review – how the classics shaped pop ○
From Stravinsky to Donna Summer, the story of connections that enriched music – in both directions
One of many things I did not expect to learn in this book is that the BBC benefited from Nazi technol…