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Jenny McLeod: Cat Dreams Gillian Whitehead: Hineteiwaiwa David Downes: Bliss Mechanism Michael Norris: tesserae… interstices John Rimmer: Ring of Fire It’s a crying shame that Stroma plays only two concerts a year, because the amount of work done by both performers and composers for these concerts must be immense. This concert, part of New Zealand [...]

(while I struggle to find time for my second real post) Why is it that I detest so much popular music? What is it about “classical” or “contemporary classical” that attracts me? The way they write is thoroughly off-putting, but Marcuse, Attali and Adorno make, between them, an excellent point. Music is not supposed to [...]