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Bare Ruin'd Choirs
A crisis of identity in choral music is leaving it professionally sidelined and with little status in society 
'Write Whatever You Want'
A period of freedom – and tension – in Chicago jazz through the playing of Anthony Braxton and the AACM
Live: Sonnets
Berliner Ensemble, Berlin12 April 2009Pairing the director Robert Wilson and the musician Rufus Wainwright in a theatrical production to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the publication of Shakespeare’s sonnets was a courageous commission by the Berliner...
Concert Review: RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet – Works Commissioned for Seamus Heaney's 70 Birthday
RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet / Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin / 3 April 2009
Live: Kevin Volans
(percussion)Project...
Otomo Yoshihide / Sachiko M
Café Oto, London9–11 March 2009Otomo Yoshihide and Sachiko M’s three-day residency at Café Oto featured them in solo and duo performances, in addition to group improvisations alongside musicians such as Eddie Prévost, Christian...
Ergodos Festival
Gamelan Sekar Petak, Neil Sorrell (director); The Gong Agenda; Michelle O’Rourke (soprano); Salil Sachdev (metal bowl, djembe, hang); Joe Browning (shakuhachi), Jonathan Sage (clarinet); Linda Buckley (voice)
National Concert Hall, Dublin, 18–19 April 2009. 