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Colin Currie on playing Steve Reich's Drumming - video

5007 days ago
Guardian MusicDuring rehearsals for his next performance, Colin Currie discusses Reich's innovative approach to harmony and rhythmLaurence Topham more info

Stravinsky our contemporary

5010 days ago
Guardian MusicForty years after his death, celebrate the extraordinary brilliance of Stravinsky by exploring beyond the Rite of SpringIgor Stravinsky died 40 years ago today. I find this astonishing – partly because Stravinsky seems to belong to another era: a c... more info

50 great moments in jazz: Pat Metheny

5010 days ago
Guardian MusicMore than any other jazz guitarist, Metheny has given the instrument as prominent a place as a trumpet or saxophonePat Metheny, the guitar star from Missouri, is one of the most commercially successful instrumentalists in jazz. But while such an achi... more info

The best world music for spring 2011

5010 days ago
Guardian MusicOur critic's pick of the best jazz, world and folk gigs coming up in May and JuneMarry Waterson and Oliver KnightThis is a busy time for the Waterson/Carthy clan, with Martin Carthy celebrating his 70th birthday at London's South Bank on 14 May, and ... more info

The Unthanks – review

5018 days ago
Guardian MusicHoward Assembly Room, LeedsThe Unthanks' startling folk has all the eerie power of their native Northumbria's coast. Backed by trumpet, drums and a female string section reminiscent of Robert Kirby's work with Nick Drake, Adrian McNally's ghostly pia... more info

Tenney: Spectrum Pieces – review

5022 days ago
Guardian MusicBarton Workshop(New World, two CDs)The Huddersfield festival has started to make an occasional feature out of James Tenney's music in recent years, but otherwise the work of this intriguing American composer and theorist, who died in 2006 at the age ... more info

London Sinfonietta/Adès – review

5058 days ago
Guardian MusicCity Halls, GlasgowAt its premiere, Thomas Adès's In Seven Days was hailed as a sign the composer might be mellowing in middle age. True, the "video ballet", a piano concerto that nominally tells the creation myth with abstract images by Adès's pa... more info

Princeton – “To The Alps”

5058 days ago
StereogumPrinceton’s “To The Alps” sounds like a song called “To The Alps” by a band called Princeton: It’s smooth, classy pop you’d imagine listening to while thawing out in front of a ski lodge fireplace. Sure, the group’s named after the ch... more info

James Blake, Pantha du Prince, Oneohtrix Point Never, The Field, Tim Exile, and More to Play 10th Annual Ether Festival

5065 days ago
XLR8RThis Spring, London's Southbank Center will embark on its 10th year of hosting the always-innovative Ether festival, cramming loads of audio, visual, and other culturally relevant experiences into over a month-long stretch of concerts, exhibitio... more info

The Rite of Spring: still crazy after all these years

5071 days ago
Guardian MusicThe Rite of Spring was so challenging it famously caused a riot at its premiere. Nearly a century on, it's still inspiring innovation – this time Avatar-styleIn 2007, when we programmed Klaus Obermaier's 3D digital version of Stravinsky's The Rite ... more info

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