Chris Newman Portrait | Classical review

Rag Factory, LondonChris Newman first attracted attention in the 1980s, when his disconcertingly strange music was performed at the ICA in London. Now in his early 50s, he's based in Berlin, and describes himself as an inter-disciplinary artist, exhibiting his visual art and publishing books of his poems, as well as continuing to compose. We hear relatively little of him in Britain, but here he was the subject of the first of three portrait concerts that the composer and conductor James Weeks ...

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