'Ligeti? That's not scary, Dad'

Are children more receptive to 'difficult' music? Pop (and definitely not classical) critic Alexis Petridis took his five-year-old daughter Esme to Whitstable to find outWhitstable's Off the Page festival is not an event that goes out of its way to attract a lucrative mainstream audience. This year, the biggest names present are composer Gavin Bryers and fearsome free improv saxophonist Evan Parker, both of whom are giving lectures rather than performing. The musical entertainment comes from the...

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