Category Archives: festival

Feminist Music at the Southbank: I. WOWhat?!

Posted on 07*03*13 by

A visit to the Southbank Centre last week has compelled me to think a few little thoughts about ‘feminist classical music’. Here is the first and it is not a cheerful one::: This weekend, the Southbank Centre is hosting an … Continue reading →

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the biting point in 2013: UPCOMING EVENTS

Posted on 14*02*13 by

I ruminated at length in the last post about the Southbank Centre’s The Rest is Noise season, and just last night the season’s tie-in BBC4 documentary The Sound and the Fury aired its first episode (I haven’t seen it yet, but the always-reliable … Continue reading →

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the biting point in 2013: The Rest is Noise

Posted on 26*01*13 by

The Southbank Centre’s The Rest is Noise festival started last weekend and I am terminally ambivalent over it. Sure, there are some really exciting, exclusively 20th-century concerts lined up – a pretty rare thing, and I’m sure they’ll bring in big new audiences … Continue reading →

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three press posts: The Ideology of Failure

Posted on 09*10*12 by

I’m trying to move away from posts that just involve arguing with opinion articles in the British press. It was sort of interesting, a few years ago, when people actually started discussing (albeit sporadically) the ‘crisis’ in classical music, and … 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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Tête à Tête & Grimeborn ’12 – a tentative preview…

Posted on 27*07*12 by

August is nearly upon us, which means the annual ‘discovery’ of fringe opera in London – maybe a column in Time Out about how opera needn’t be for posh people any more, some witty line about trading black tie for … Continue reading →

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Radiohead Rewrite/The Rest Is Noise Festival 2013

Posted on 27*01*12 by

A recent press release from the Southbank Centre has created a certain amount of web excitement around two prospects for next year’s season. Steve Reich is writing a piece called ‘Radiohead Rewrite’, based on two songs by the band: ‘Everything … 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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Studio Opera in London: Grimeborn/Tête à Tête/OperaUpClose

Posted on 18*08*11 by

It’s that time of year when the two London studio opera festivals go head-to-head (!), for reasons that I don’t really understand (couldn’t one of them be a little earlier…?), and had I any money I would most certainly be … Continue reading →

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Live Review: Reverberations at the Barbican

Posted on 15*05*11 by

Reverberations: The Influence of Steve Reich Session 3, Sat 7th May, 6pm + Session 6, Sun 8th May, 6pm The ‘marathon weekend’ is a concept that, I would suspect, a lot of London concert-goers aren’t familiar with. Last weekend’s Reich-branded … Continue reading →

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