Shattering boundaries? Can't we just go to hear the music?

Next spring's Reverb festival has some great-looking gigs. So why the need for the fighting talk?Conductor Sir Mark Elder and Imogen Heap on the same bill? The period instruments of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Michael Gordon's fantasy on the mega-city, Gotham, played by those contemporary orchestral hipsters, Aurora? It's the lineup for one of the few festivals where this kind of cross-generic musical mixing is the norm: the Roundhouse's Reverb, in its second edition after its ...

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