The Rambler
Blog URL http://johnsonsrambler.wordpress.com
Located London, London United Kingdom
Tags music, classical, modern, contemporary, experimental, avantgarde, reviews, concerts, CDs
Contemporary classical music: reviews, commentary, listings
Latest Blog Posts
- More New Irish Music at King’s Place on Nov 16, 2009 in Concerts Music Ian Wilson Philip Hammond Ronan Guilfoyle
Tonight at King’s Place sees the second of two concerts of new Irish music for violin and piano. (For my review of the first concert, see here.) In Solos and Duos for Violin and Piano: 2, Ioana Petcu-Colan (violin) and Michael McHale (piano) ex...
- Can I iz writr now plz? on Nov 13, 2009 in Music ELISION Guardian Richard Barrett
My first Guardian article came out today. I now feel a combination of great satisfaction, disappointment at the inaccurate headline, and terror that someone’s going to find tremendous fault with it. It’s a fairly puffy thing previewing Ri...
- Dillon in the Times on Nov 13, 2009 in Music James Dillon
Incidentally, it’s obviously N*w C*mpl*x*ty week in the British press – here’s a very fine piece on James Dillon (whose music is also being performed in Huddersfield) in today’s Times. The complexity came about as a way of cre...
- ELISION at King’s Place, reviewed on Nov 9, 2009 in Concerts Reviews Aaron Cassidy Carl Rosman Chris Dench ELISION Elliott Carter Evan Johnson Michael Finnissy Richard Barrett Richard Haynes
Sum Over Histories Elliott Carter: Hiyoku Chris Dench: sum over histories Richard Barrett: Hypnerotomachia (wp) Aaron Cassidy: I, purples, spat blood, laugh of beautiful lips Michael Finnissy: Marrngu Evan Johnson: Apostrophe 1 (all communicate is a...
- EXAUDI at the Warehouse, reviewed on Nov 6, 2009 in Concerts Reviews Claudia Molitor Exaudi Musical Pointers
My review of EXAUDI’s recent concert at the Warehouse is now online at Musical Pointers: Several of the pieces in this miscellany of special commissions and ‘must do’ rarities came across as surprisingly honest to certain choral tra...
- Music and the Cold War at the AMS on Nov 6, 2009 in Academia AMS cold war
The Cold War and Music Study Group of the AMS has a new blog. At the moment it just includes notices about the study group’s forthcoming meeting at AMS 2009 (next weekend), but hopefully it will blossom into something more than this. An open d...
- musikFabrik – Michaels Reise um die Welt on Nov 5, 2009 in Video Karlheinz Stockhausen musikFabrik
From Anablog: The video of musikFabrik’s 2008 production of Michael’s Journey Around the World has been posted to YouTube, and it’s well worth watching. WDR did an admirable job of capturing the overpacked visuals, but the DVD still...
