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Matteo Pericoli and his drawings of New York City | Art

5674 days ago
Guardian MusicMatteo Pericoli found fame with his 22ft fold-out drawing of Manhattan's skyline. His new book shows the city through the windows of New York's artists and writers, from Annie Leibovitz to Philip Glass, David Byrne to Nora Ephron, with their thoughts... more info

Dracula | Classical/Film review

5679 days ago
Guardian MusicHackney Empire, London"No, it wasn't scary at all," the girl said as she chatted to her friend on her mobile. "The old horror films are so funny." Much of the packed house at Hackney Empire thought the same of Tod Browning's 1931 movie Dracula, scree... more info

I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky; Icarus at the Edge of Time; Don Giovanni | Classical review

5695 days ago
Guardian MusicTheatre Royal Stratford East, London; Royal Festival Hall, London; Glyndebourne Opera House, East SussexYou don't need to be a theoretical physicist to go to the opera but it helps. Black holes, big bangs, general relativity and gravitational collaps... more info

Icarus at the Edge of Time | Classical review

5699 days ago
Guardian MusicRoyal Festival Hall, LondonAs well as being a leading theoretical physicist, Brian Greene is an ardent scientific populariser, with a number of best-selling books to his name including the children's book, Icarus at the Edge of Time, published two ye... more info

LPO/Murphy | Classical review

5701 days ago
Guardian MusicRoyal Festival Hall, LondonCultural cross-fertilisation between India and the west existed long before 1966, when George Harrison visited Ravi Shankar in Varanasi and long before Shankar himself first visited Paris as a teenager while touring with hi... more info

Yannis from Foals meets Phillip Glass

5714 days ago
DrownedInSoundYannis from Foals sat down for an email chat with legendary composer Phillip Glass Yannis: How do you feel about the technological advances in the dissemination of music? Do you see it as having a detrimental effect in people's appreciation and at... more info

Portrait of the artist: Marin Alsop, conductor

5721 days ago
Guardian Music'The first review I got said: "We should think this person is talented, but we don't." I stayed in bed for two days'What was the first piece of music that inspired you?Brahms's String Sextet in B flat major. I was 12, and doing a chamber music camp ... more info

Festivals in Brief: Blaze, Cleveland Solstice, Taste of Randolph, Italia Wave

5727 days ago
PitchforkWHAT: Blaze FestivalWHEN: June 19 - July 31WHERE: London, EnglandWHO: The Knife's Tomorrow in a Year, Dirty Projectors performing The Getty Address, Shearwater, Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba, Caetano Veloso, Lee "Scratch Perry, Toots and the Maytals... more info

Alan Rich obituary

5730 days ago
Guardian MusicUS critic and champion of new composersIn the US, support for promising new composers and performers has always been thin on the ground. Alan Rich, who has died aged 85, was one of the small band of music reviewers engaged not merely in pontificating... more info

Andres: Shy and Mighty | CD review

5739 days ago
Guardian MusicAndres/Kaplan(Nonesuch)Timothy Andres is the latest young composer (born in 1985) to burst on to the new-music scene from New York, trailing garlands of praise in his wake. Trained at the Juilliard School and Yale University, Andres is unquestionably... more info

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