December 2009/January 2010
1 December 2009
For nine years, I have been poised as a magazine publisher, ready to leap into the virtual world entirely. From about 2006, I was expecting it every month. It has yet to happen. Earlier this year I witnessed another magazine, not unlike ours – one that...
1 December 2009
Silent painting: Robert Rauschenberg’s White Painting (Three Panel) (1951) Barcelona – An exhibition on the life and work of the composer John Cage is running at the Museu D’Art Contemporani De Barcelona until 10 January 2010. It is...
1 December 2009
Composers at Artmusfair (l-r): Patrick Ager (authority on EU politics), Sarah Rodgers (composer, Chairman of British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors), David Stoll (composer, Board member of BASCA), John McLachlan (composer, Director of the Association...
1 December 2009
New York cellist and composer Arthur Russell Hold on to Your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene, 1973–1992 by Tim Lawrence (Duke University Press) is the first biography of the cellist and composer Arthur Russell, one of the lesser known...
1 December 2009
Julie Fowlis is a singer from North Uist, a small island in the Outer Hebrides in Scotland. Singing primarily in Scottish Gaelic, her third album, Uam, meaning ‘from me’, was released on the Spit & Polish label (Glagow) in Europe in October and will be released in the United States and Canada in March 2010. Best known as a soloist, Fowlis also performs with the Scottish group Dòchas. In 2008, the same year in which she received the BBC 2 Folk Singer of the Year award, she released a Scottish–Irish collaboration, Dual, with singer Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh, guitarist Ross Martin and bouzouki-player and husband Éamon Doorley. www.juliefowlis.co.uk
1 December 2009
Origin early 19th cent. (denoting the director of a musical institution): from French, entreprendre, ‘undertake’
1 December 2009
In works by Leitch Ritchie and John Beverley Nichols, Barra Ó Séaghdha discovers why Indian music is not serious art – while China and Scotland have problems too.
1 December 2009
The full range of views currently being aired on the state of copyright and illegal downloading was starkly illustrated in the responses of Mike Hanrahan and Scott McLaughlin to my article (Aug–Sept). Mike Hanrahan’s letter was strongly critical...
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