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Empty School

Thanks to Alex Ross’ The Rest is Noise blog for alerting me to Empty School, a 2.40 minutes composition for piano and mostly unorthodox percussion, written, performed and filmed by 17 year old Ben...

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Morty

A question. How can someone be the author of the sparky, irreverent and lively pieces of writing collected in Give My Regards to 8th Street, be the composer of such slow, monochromatic and totally...

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Listen(ing) to This

Alex Ross, music critic of the New Yorker, was at the British Library at lunchtime today, promoting his new book, Listen to This. Temperatures close to freezing and an accompanying whirlygig of snow...

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Twelve-Toning at the Festival Hall

One of London’s great bargains is surely to be found in the Choir seats at the Royal Festival Hall – around 250 0f them – where, for a mere £8.00, you can enjoy concerts by such as the Philharmonia and...

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Ambling after the Avant Garde, 2

As the Southbank Centre’s year long The Rest is Noise festival of twentieth century music, based around Alex Ross’s book of the same name, comes towards its end, two major figures of contemporary...

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