Miscellaneous Writings

Questions: Quel souvenir avez-vous des PCL, lorsque vous les avez rencontré pour la création de Medea You must bear in mind that when I wrote Medea I had written nothing

I The recorded legacy of Joseph Holbrooke from the 1960’s is almost non-existent. The material that does survive from the 1960’s is located on tapes of rehearsals at a time

Foreword A few years ago the French writer, critic and broadcaster Daniel Caux, who died in the summer of 2008, said that there had been three major new musical developments

Response to Choral questions Background in choral singing? Family? Own religious/church background? Is that important – now/then? As a family a lot of our life revolved around the church (Christ

Globe and Mail October 1st 2005 For artists abroad, the CBC is the voice of Canada GAVIN BRYARS My life as a composer has involved me in constant international travel.

Dear Sir, While Jimmy White’s name-change as part of HP Sauce’s sponsorship of snooker is terrific, it does represent a missed opportunity, though there may still be time to correct

Further to your obituary of James Coburn (Independent November 20 2002), something which does not really appear there is the extent to which Coburn’s work as an actor was informed

JEMS: An Online Journal of Experimental Music Studies Reprints Series Vexations and its Performers Originally published in Contact no. 26 (Spring 1983), pp. 12-20. Reprinted with the kind permission of

I enjoyed John Goldsby’s article very much. The section on Slam Stewart reminded me of the time in 1964 when I played opposite him at the Carlton Cabaret Club in

The French music critic and broadcaster Daniel Caux used to say that there have been three major new developments in music since the Second World War: the music of John

Songs of Defiance: Music of Chechnya and the North Caucasus Just at the moment when you think you have a grasp on most indigenous European music along comes something that

“Most Influential Album of all time” I can cite four artistic encounters that changed my life and the way I think about making music and at least one of these

My first encounter with John Cage changed my life. I had known about Cage from quite an early age as Dr. (“Bud”) Ramsey, the extraordinarily enlightened music master at Goole

The appearance of the music of Arvo Pärt in the mid 1980’s was a startling thing, as though one had walked into a strange but parallel musical universe, one which

There is no doubt in my mind that my friend Derek Bailey was one of the major figures in music – and not just improvised music – over the last