Guardian Music — Barbican, LondonReceiving its European premiere in this BBC Symphony programme under Oliver Knussen was Wanderlust by the 31-year-old American Sean Shepherd. It's a triptych, each panel describing a place – the windy deserts of the composer's nativ... more info

Guardian Music — (Jazzland)Solveig Slettahjell, the beguiling Norwegian singer, has been moving from the stealthy makeovers of classics that launched her towards an original repertoire; apart from an Emily Dickinson poem, Tarpan Seasons is all new material. Though it... more info

Guardian Music — St Bride's Fleet St, LondonFounded in 2000 as a memorial to the trumpet player John Armitage, the foundation known as JAM has premiered some 50 new works, commissioning many of them. In this event featuring the BBC Singers and Onyx Brass under the ba... more info

Reuters — NEW YORK (Reuters) - The voice of Emily Dickinson has been reimagined in a new novel exploring the lustful thoughts of one of America's greatest poets, who still stirs debate more than 120 years after her death. more info

The Telegraph — Robert Douglas-Fairhurst praises Emily Dickinson and her Family's Feuds, a life of the poet that gets behind the gossip more info

All About Jazz — Sam Sadigurskys Words Project III: Miniatures NY Debut Friday Jan. 29th at Galapagos Art Space (DUMBO, Brooklyn) The highly anticipated New York debut of Sam Sadigurskys Words Project III: Miniatures, the NY-based saxophonist and composers third ins... more info

Guardian Music — Folk singer and songwriter at the heart of an innovative music-making familyKate McGarrigle, who has died aged 63, was a luminous singer and songwriter whose partnership with her sister Anna produced some of the most attractive and memorable music to... more info

Guardian Music — American singer-songwriter acclaimed for his raw, uncompromising lyricsThe singer-songwriter Vic Chesnutt, who has died aged 45 after an overdose of muscle relaxants, was a veteran presence in the independent, rather than the mainstream, music charts... more info

Guardian Music — I had been looking for a voice to capture how it felt to hear that Vic Chesnutt had died, when I realised that voice was his ownI first heard Vic Chesnutt one Saturday morning in Dublin, many years ago now. Lying in bed in early summer, gulls cawing ... more info