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I'm always up for music shows such as Jools Holland, but news more than anything, particularly Newsnight. And cookery: Hugh... →
In America, they have this nauseating habit of calling the conductor 'maestro'. I always slightly gag when the cor anglais player goes... →
It still amazes me how many musicians aren't really interested in engaging with their audience at all. Alfred Brendel, a pianist for whom I have... →
It's wonderful doing concerts in places like New York and London, but I feel a responsibility to also bring my work home, to bring world-class... →
Mozart, Beethoven - how can you not want to share them with everyone and anyone? This stuff is of as great importance as the food we eat and the air... →
Music is about communication, and the chemistry between an audience and the orchestra is absolutely essential; the performance does not exist in a... →
Musical 'fusion' projects have earned themselves a bad name, but that's mainly because they often involve pop artists conscripting... →
Our pop scene is among the best in the world because there are 300 languages spoken on the streets of London, compared with 200 in New York. Our... →
Parallels between classical and pop are not new. The whole San Francisco movement of John Cage and Terry Riley went hand in glove with what the... →
People like Aphex Twin, Jason Pierce, Jarvis Cocker and William Orbit are actively showing their interest in a wider field of music. Jarvis and I met... →
Purcell is a composer who had a formative influence on British music - even The Who now cite him as an influence. There's an intense, dirty... →
Somerset is the first proper country county you come to in the West, which isn't dependent on London and isn't full of commuters. Somerset is... →
The rest of my family are obsessed by 'The X Factor:' I'm intrigued by it, although its musical values are far away from mine, like a cup... →
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