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St Magnus festival in Orkney, a festival finding joy in innovation

IN FOCUS: Simon Mundy finds much to love at the 50th anniversary celebrations, from Lucine Musaelian singing traditional Armenian music to the refreshingly unconventional composer Alistair Nicholson

The Independent UK · Jun 26

Patricia Kopatchinskaja/Aurora Orchestra review – ferocious evocation of humanity’s reckoning

The violinist leads an unsparing assault of pieces from Biber’s dissonant Battalia à 10 to Ustvolskaya’s Composition No 2 as sirens bellow and metronomes tick down our existence

The Guardian - UK · Feb 23, 2024

The week in classical: The Dead City; Black Angels; Re:sound – review

ENO give a thoughtful account of Korngold’s uneven study of loss; Manchester Collective revel in an eerie George Crumb masterpiece; and Streetwise Opera tell a five-star tale of three cities

The Guardian - UK · Apr 1, 2023

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The world lost 6 revolutionary composers within a year. How LA, and only LA, is paying tribute

LOS ANGELES — When Harrison Birtwistle died last week at 87, he became the sixth pioneering composer who came to prominence in the 1960s that we lost in less than nine months. This uncompromising British modernist, along with Holland's most important composer, Louis Andriessen, and Americans Frederic Rzewski, George Crumb,…

Los Angeles Times · Apr 26, 2022

George Crumb obituary

Trailblazing US composer who pursued his expressive aims by pushing performers and instruments beyond their usual limits

The Guardian - UK · Feb 10, 2022

Appreciation: How George Crumb became one of America's most surprisingly consequential composers

George Crumb, who died Sunday at 92, was an all-American composer — one of our best, most original and most important. He was as American as apple pie, this shy, unpretentious West Virginian born in Charleston on Black Thursday, Oct. 24, 1929, the day of the great Wall Street crash.…

Los Angeles Times · Feb 9, 2022

George Crumb, influential 20th-century composer and author of sounds tranquil and horrifying, dies at 92

PHILADELPHIA — George Crumb, 92, the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer who inspired generations with his keen use of concert hall theatrics and embrace of unusual instrumental techniques, died Sunday. His death, at home in Media, was announced by his record label, Bridge Records.

The Philadelphia Inquirer · Feb 8, 2022

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