FatCat’s ‘post-classical’ imprint 130701 Records will be represented in live venues across Europe in May by Jóhann Jóhannsson, Hauschka and Dustin O’Halloran. Included in this stretch of dates is a triple headline bill at London’s Barbican Hall on May 18th, for details of the show seehttp://www.barbican.org.uk/music/event-detail.asp?ID=12895. Also worth checking is this month’s Barbican’s Music Podcast […]
The church was the driving force behind the development of early classical music; nowadays, it’s the film industry and (unfortunately) advertising which pay the classical composer’s way. Modern ‘popular classical’ music has taken on a dance-music character, with shorter chord progressions, less of a tendency towards quirky melody lines, and an avoidance of the highly-emphasised, […]