Last year, Jazzdor Festival director Philippe Ochem and his team had to cancel everything they had worked to create. I interviewed him before that happened, well in advance of 2020’s 35th festival (HERE), a piece we co-published in two languages [...]
The Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin is a golden egg designed by Frank Gehry to yoke audience and artist together and hatch an intimate mutual response through music. There’s no stage or separation between the oval central floor space and [...]
The critic Eric Thacker once suggested Ran Blake’s music, especially music evoked by movies, was a good fit for Wordsworth’s notion of poetry as “emotion recollected in tranquillity”. It’s still fair comment, and something of the same air attaches to [...]
