Archive for 'Classical'
Strings Attached
The North Sea Radio Orchestra at the Roundhouse last year
In the past couple of days, I’ve booked tickets for the following:
two different shows by the North Sea Radio Orchestra, one supporting the excellent Ted Barnes at the Purcell Room on the 27th SEPTEMBER [EDIT - apologies for putting wrong date previously] (with a free open [...]
Posted: September 19th, 2008 under Classical, Concerts, Jazz, Music, Rock.
Comments: 14
No album goes unreviewed!
Most CDs sent out to music journalists, I suspect, don’t get listened to. For me, given that several arrive every day, it can get almost impossible to keep track; I naturally home in on names I recognise, and others fall to the bottom of a “slush pile”. Commissioning decisions then tend to get made on [...]
Posted: September 5th, 2008 under Classical, Jazz, Music, Rock.
Comments: 18
Opera Class Hero
Nelson Fraser of The Spectator says opera subsidies are “a middle-class rip off“. Oliver Kamm says they are “a public good” as he makes the “liberal case for subsidies” in The Times.
Who is right?
Posted: August 22nd, 2008 under Classical, Music.
Comments: 20