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Leonard Slatkin on John Adams
Few American composers have had worldwide recognition as acknowledged masters of their art. Even rarer are those who are still very much alive. John Adams, whose music is celebrated this...
“The first memento mori – I’ll check my pulse”
John Adams is a habitual early-riser – “I hate to work at night”. He’ll being doing both over the weekend of January 18-20 and during the logistic-challenging days of rehearsal...
“What, with my name?” – A conversation with John Adams
I’d asked John Adams if he saw himself as directly related to the founding fathers of American music – Ives, Copland and their contemporaries, the creators of musical openness …...
A Fantasy Come True – Jonathan Haas in conversation
Speak of the orchestra and certain images spring to mind – the strings who take up the large majority of the floor space; trumpets, flutes, even bassoons, each with endless...
Music as Sound – Magnus Lindberg Interview
With Finland now such a major player on the international cultural scene, it seems astonishing that, barely a quarter of a century ago, Lindberg’s generation became the first to define...
Lang Lang in conversation…
Now in his final year of being a teenager, Lang Lang has been catapulted to stardom. Although America-bound anyway, his last-minute replacing of Andre Watts and Richard Goode for Chicago...
Carl Nielsen Symposium
1 November 2001, Recital Room, Birmingham Conservatoire While a festival such as ’Discover Denmark’ is primarily about performance and exhibition, it makes sense to include a conference element as part...
Leonard Slatkin on Britten’s War Requiem
When I was a student in the early sixties, no single work of music represented the collective beliefs of the anti-Vietnam conflict more than Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem. Here was...
Gramophone Awards 2001
The Editor has asked me to report on the 2001 Gramophone Awards from the point of view of a member of the great classical CD-buying public. This I am qualified...
A more open Barbican…
Yes, the acoustic has opened up, the sound now moves off the platform into the audience. An improvement? Yes, and rather more than I was expecting. It’s not perfection though....
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