by Rick Jones | Aug 21, 2017 | Music
Thrill Ride A certain musical schizophrenia characterised the last hundred years: as “The 20th Century” the age was bright, modern and broke with the past. Composers braved atonality and persuaded the players it was the future, but as “The Nineteen Hundreds” it was a...
by hello_27687r2a | Aug 16, 2017 | Music
Lighten Our Darkness 15 August This Prom all seemed to fit together so well – on paper, at least. Its tone was described on the summary page of the programme: we were in for “darkness”. And “torment”. Berg’s Violin Concerto, his “requiem for an angel” and his last...
