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Simon Fearn is a final-year English Literature undergraduate at Durham University. He spends most of his time writing about the arts and occasionally sings…
Read MoreSimon Fearn is a final-year English Literature undergraduate at Durham University. He spends most of his time writing about the arts and occasionally sings…
Read MoreBy Simon Fearn Philip Venables is now considered one of the UK’s most exciting young composers after his revelatory operatic adaptation of Sarah Kane’s…
Read MoreBy Simon Fearn In a bar perched on the 15th floor of the St. George’s Hotel in Oxford Circus, sculptor Josie Spencer and…
Read MoreBy Simon Fearn Joep Beving, a 42-year-old Dutch composer with a bristly, pointed beard and fronds of dull blonde hair, seems born to write…
Read MoreBy Simon Fearn It’s a freezing November evening. Steve Beresford and I are precariously carrying a suitcase of instruments aboard a concert venue bobbing…
Read MoreBy Simon Fearn March 1933. Jelly d’Arányi, great-niece of the violinist Joseph Joachim, claims to receive a message from the ghost of Robert Schumann….
Read MoreBy Simon Fearn How many dead female composers can you name? When up-and-coming composer Tom Green was posed this question, like many of us,…
Read MoreBy Simon Fearn Consider the humble pigeon – widely believed to be incapable of any sound more harmonious than a desultory cooing. Who would…
Read MoreBy Simon Fearn Surfing has always suggested a kind of daredevil mentality – a tiny man riding a towering wave is always going to…
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