Category Archives: live review

Feminist Music at the Southbank: III. On Semi-Stagings (or, How To Silence A Political Piece)

Posted on 17*03*13 by

A visit to the Southbank Centre the other week has compelled me to think a few little thoughts about ‘feminist classical music’. Here is the third-and-final,  following on directly from my discussion of Kurt Weill’s/Bertolt Brecht’s The Seven Deadly Sins, in which I try and figure … Continue reading →

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Feminist Music at the Southbank: II. Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins & Intersectionality

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A visit to the Southbank Centre the other week has compelled me to think a few little thoughts about ‘feminist classical music’. Here is the second, in praise of Kurt Weill’s/Bertolt Brecht’s The Seven Deadly Sins, a rare example (I will argue) of an explicitly … Continue reading →

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Opera Erratica

Posted on 19*05*12 by

Over the last month I’ve been very lucky to have the chance to assist on two projects from the innovative London-based company Opera Erratica. Previously, I’d been asked on two separate occasions whether I’d heard about a ‘hologram opera’ company coming to … 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: Muhly’s Two Boys

Posted on 04*07*11 by

By proudly inhabiting a distinctly un-’operatic’ genre – that of crime drama – Nico Muhly’s Two Boys expands the possibilities of operatic narrative, while creatively reimagining the role that music plays within the cross-disciplinary dynamic of opera. (And producing a rather … 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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Live Review: Rites @ Royal Festival Hall

Posted on 06*05*11 by

A few weeks ago, I attended a late evening performance of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra’s Rites at the Royal Festival Hall – a virtual 3D one-woman ballet choreographed to The Rite of Spring. It was a perfect day … Continue reading →

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Live Review: Chopped & Screwed @ Queen Elizabeth Hall

Posted on 08*04*11 by

The concert on Tuesday featuring a collaboration between Micachu & The Shapes and the London Sinfonietta felt like an experiment on a number of levels. For one thing, as someone fairly familiar with the Southbank as an institution, I couldn’t … Continue reading →

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Live Review: Alarm Will Sound in Berlin

Posted on 03*04*11 by

While in Berlin, we were lucky enough to go and see Alarm Will Sound perform at the Kammermusiksaal der Philharmonie and, despite the rather daunting prestige of the venue, for me it was quite close to the ideal concert experience. … Continue reading →

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the biting point in BERLIN

Posted on 28*03*11 by

We spent a week recently in Berlin and had the chance to get a fairly cursory overview of its contemporary music scene. Expectations were high, not just because of the city’s modern reputation as a unique artistic milieu, but also … Continue reading →

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