The Music of Silence: Steven Osborne – review

Milton Court concert hall, LondonThe pianist weaves magic on the edge of hearing with the help of an enthralled audience and two avant garde American composersPsychologists, with a name for everything, call it sedatephobia. Fear of silence. The compulsion to talk when the room falls quiet, to switch on the radio in an empty room, to rush from country quiet back to the reassuring roar of town. In part, this is about noise pollution. In part, it’s about hearing rather than listening, passiv...

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