Category Archives: community

Nonclassical & Freedom from Torture presents: KAFKA FRAGMENTS

Posted on 15*12*12 by

We’ve been very privileged to help out in the programming and organisation of a super-exciting event in aid of the charity Freedom from Torture. As part of a whole month of gigs, including Iceage at the Shacklewell Arms and Bombay … Continue reading →

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Save New Amsterdam Records

Posted on 04*11*12 by

The excellent and important New York classical label New Amsterdam Records had its headquarters pretty much devastated by the superstorm last week. About 70% of their CD catalogue was destroyed, along with all their financial records and their back-up hard-drive, … Continue reading →

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5:4, BBC Proms & A Short Rant About Recordings

Posted on 14*09*12 by

The BBC Proms came and went and we didn’t go to any of them, mainly because we were out of the country (and only partly because we weren’t really interested). The Proms may showcase the very safest, most institutionally-established composers … Continue reading →

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Pitchfork on ‘The Emergence of Indie Classical’

Posted on 29*02*12 by

‘Stick together. Do as many different things as you feel like. Don’t worry about big organizations. Make it happen yourself.’ Jayson Greene of Pitchfork Media surveys New York’s ‘indie classical’ milieu, as the legacy of the Downtown scene: READ IT … Continue reading →

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the biting point in 2012

Posted on 03*01*12 by

Happy New Year from the biting point to all our readers!!! We’d firstly like to apologise for our quiet period towards the end of 2011, mainly caused by the fact that we were too busy and poor to see any … Continue reading →

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‘The Question of Qualitative Compromise’ (New venues, new conventions II)

Posted on 11*08*11 by

An extremely positive review of both the Rite of Spring Project and London’s first Yellow Lounge, surfaced on theartsdesk website a couple of weeks ago. It was written by Igor Toronyi-Lalic, whose previous article on Yellow Lounge I recently critiqued, … Continue reading →

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New venues, new conventions

Posted on 23*07*11 by

‘I’ve been writing about the arts for 35 years now, and the resolve with which resourceful young musicians are dumping the ancestral conventions of their art-form strikes me as the most exciting development in classical music for decades, if not … Continue reading →

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Alt-Classical/Post-Classical/Neo-Classical

Posted on 30*03*11 by

In January of this year, the Sunday Times ran an article entitled ‘Classically strained’ where it attempted a cautious probe into what it called ‘a fresh genre’ – accessible tonal new music produced on independent labels and demonstrating a popular … Continue reading →

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