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Amidst the massive toll of lives lost in the First World War were many many writers, artists and composers. The War Poets, Franz Marc, Apollonaire … and so many unknown…
Liszt’s piano setting of his late work Via Crucis (originally for choir, soloists and organ) has many passages that sound extraordinarily like Satie or other much later exponents of minimalism. Wikipedia…
(edit 22nd August 2018 – readers may also be interested in the careers of Ana Olgica and Amity Cadet) https://open.spotify.com/embed/user/aoifenichorcorain/playlist/74KqlNzk7NMTChonWbOC75 Continuing from my profiles of the work of Amity Cadet and…
(edit 22nd August 2018 – readers may also be interested in the careers of Ana Olgica and Enno Aare) The works of the Vietnam-born French composer and pianist Amity Cadet…
We do speak about music. The verbal analysis of a musical score can, to a certain extent, elucidate its formal structure, its technical components and instrumentation. But where it is…
This is a rather grumpy review. I found the writing in this anthology by and large ponderous and forced, too self-consciously “literary.” I think that is pretty clear from the…
