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3 months ago

‘Looming over the city like gods’: the men who changed New York for better and worse

Jonathan Mahler’s new book looks back at the tumultuous period between 1986 and 1990 when figures such as Trump, Koch and Giuliani forever affected the city

Jonathan Mahler didn’t plan to publish his …

Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos 1 & 3; Two Scherzos album review – deft execution of the Russian’s early exuberance

BBC Philharmonic/John Storgårds/Hallé Choir
(Chandos)

Capturing the momentum of two of Shostakovich’s first Soviet-era symphonies, this performance adds a pair of scherzos that pre-date even them

If the…

5 months ago

The 1975 at Glastonbury review – amid the irony, ego and pints of Guinness, this is a world-class band

Pyramid stage
Perhaps joking, or perhaps not, Matty Healy pronounces himself ‘the greatest songwriter of my generation’ – and that’s only a slightly ridiculous statement

The 1975’s first Glastonbury he…

8 months ago

The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz by Anne Sebba review – playing for their lives

The remarkable story of conductor Alma Rosé and the musicians who survived the Holocaust by performing amid horrific conditions

When 13-year-old Pearl Pufeles disembarked from the cattle car at Auschw…

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