Jonathan Harvey: Touching the Void

Jonathan Harvey's music has always contained visions of the beyond. As he faces death himself, he talks to Tom ServiceComposer Jonathan Harvey's smile is just as generous and infectious as it has always been, but the rest of his physical body is wasting away. "They tell me – gently – that it will become more uncomfortable, and that there isn't much time", he says, reflecting on the motor neurone disease that will end his life. There is no trace of bitterness or fear in the way he tells me, j...

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