A double slice of genius today with my favourite modern Classical composer Igor Stravinsky and the incredible talents of Chinese concert pianist Yuja Wang. Stravinsky always made complete sense to me, I never thought of it as disjointed or discordant. It may be why Progessive Rock never sounded complex to me as a listener, it […]
To write about Igor Stravinsky, that giant of 20th century music, studied, analysed, dissected, attacked and admired by intellectuals, music lovers, critics, professors and self-proclaimed experts galore, might have you wondering why I should enter into such a prickly warzone of controversy and polarising opinions. It’s an area where honoured musicologists with Ph.Ds and esteemed […]