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Michael Tilson Thomas obituary

American conductor who brought high-octane dynamism to performances by the London Symphony Orchestra

The Guardian - UK

BBCNOW/Paterson/Wills review – from Joyce’s muse to Point Reyes’s whirling birds

Simon Wills’s new concertante ballet, premiered here, proved engaging but too discursive in a concert that also featured Gabriella Smith’s Tumblebird Contrails and Ives’ first symphony

The Guardian - UK

“Django Reinhardt was our god – I played a Selmer Maccaferri-style guitar, grew a mustache, wore a suit... the whole thing”: Big Thief’s Buck Meek names 10 guitarists who shaped his sound

The understated indie guitar hero is well-versed in blues and jazz tradition, but also takes inspiration from Marc Ribot, Connie Converse... and The Shaggs’ Dorothy “Dot” Wiggin

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Marc-André Hamelin review – pianist rises to the extreme challenges of Ives’s Concord Sonata

Hamelin took the extreme technical difficulties of Ives’s sonata entirely in his stride, finding beauty in its most tangled moments

The Guardian - UK

Peter Dickinson obituary

Composer, academic and broadcaster who focused on American experimental music and pioneered the teaching of jazz in Britain

The Guardian - UK

BBCNOW/Bancroft review – Adams’ colossal Harmonielehre is full of colour, drama and life

Ryan Bancroft and the National Orchestra of Wales were superb in works by Ives and Adams; Szymanowki’s glittering Violin Concerto, a less obvious choice for the “American” programme, was passionately realised by Bomsori Kim

The Guardian - UK

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith: Let’s Turn It Into Sound review – glistening arpeggios and heavenly vocals

While tracks frequently change tempo, key and mood, and discordant elements overlap, occasionally the cacophony sounds sublime

The Guardian - UK

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