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Anthems, agency and arias: baritone Davóne Tines on rewriting his role – and the rules

The acclaimed US opera singer refuses to restrict himself or his audience. His current Barbican residency sees him range across genres. Always ask questions, always engage, he says. He talks ‘capital O opera’ and big ideas

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Julius Eastman: A Power Greater Than review – Davóne Tines celebrates the maverick musician

In a vivid concert celebrating the eclecticism of Eastman’s work, there was head-banging intensity, the spirt of Joan of Arc and a Lutheran battle hymn

The Guardian - UK

Julie Cunningham & Company: Crow/Pigeons review – a beady dance delight

Jules Cunningham explores themes of marginalisation in a masterful collaboration with Le Tigre’s JD Samson and a piece that echoes Merce Cunningham

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Prom 45: BBCSO/Stasevska review – weighty premiere of a penniless composer’s symphony of love

The composer’s only surviving orchestral score feels more preliminary sketch than finished work, but Sibelius’s Fifth Symphony was stirringly delivered

The Guardian - UK

Wild Up – Julius Eastman Vol 3: If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Rich? review – a deliriously great tribute

The LA collective Wild Up continue their celebration of the radical US composer with a wild and wonderful selection of minimalist-maximalist delights

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Ivo van Hove’s cultural highlights

The Olivier-winning theatre director on Paul Mescal’s star turn in Streetcar, an ideal Saturday in south London and the best composer he’d never heard of

The Guardian - UK

From Tchaikovsky to Pankhurst, the quiet love stories of history's queer musicians

Classical music doesn't have a particularly radical reputation, but that doesn't mean that queer culture hasn't been thriving for centuries within its ranks.

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Loraine James interview: ‘It’s a very weird time to be gay. Things are going a bit far-right’

The acclaimed musician‘s new album pays homage to ‘forgotten’ black, queer composer Julius Eastman - she talks erasure of black artists and why she turns down most music festivals

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For a long time I didn’t even know Black composers existed: it’s not just an absence, it’s erasure

The British musician writes about discovering the work of avant garde US composer Julius Eastman and reinterpreting his work for a new century

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