Sufjan Stevens, Nico Muhly and Bryce Dessner – review

Barbican, LondonNone of the three musicians at the Barbican tonight are strangers to the grand cosmic scheme. The National's guitarist Bryce Dessner was in this very hall in February performing his audiovisual Mayan dream-hymn The Long Count. Nico Muhly has composed more than 100 contemporary classical works since 2001, including an opera about an internet death pact. And psych-folk wunderkind Sufjan Stevens aborted plans to record an album about every American state when he realised he'd be aro...

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