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Playing my bit-part in Apocalypse Now

Review of The Indian Core at Barefoot.

From Mendelssohn minor to Ursa Major

The CMSC Bicentennial Concert 2009, reviewed.

Rub on funk, to taste

Arrack, cigars and not much else at The Mount Lavinia Jazz Festival. For the Sunday Times (SL).

A ‘flat’ Strauss, a controlled Mozart and a ‘whooping’ Mendelssohn

Headline writers pull over-time in interest of balance after SOSL Premieres concert. For the Sunday Times (SL).

Duelling pianners

‘Musical Colours on Two Pianos’ – Ramya de Livera Perera and Soundarie David, at the Lionel Wendt. For the Sunday Times (SL).

Seing Oasis live – 15 years late

Oasis at Wembley Stadium. For The Oxford Times.

Celebrating Orwellianism

Orwell – a celebration, at the Trafalgar Studios, London. For The Oxford Times.

A little night reading

Nocturnes Five Stories of Music and Nightfall Kazuo Ishiguro faber and faber £14.99, 221p ISBN 978-0-571-24498-0 ‘Their talk was no longer just about music – though everything always seemed to come back to it.’ Whether as opening subject or illustrative decoration, music seems to be a recurring theme for Kazuo Ishiguro. The Unconsoled told of […]

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Alles in Ordnung (isch) in Hampstead Theatre’s revival of Michael Frayn’s farce. For The Oxford Times.

After Dido

The Young Vic’s Purcell update is terribly clever… and largely pointless. For The Oxford Times.