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Entries by Paul Kilbey from 10/2011

Why Stephen Fry Should Stop Gushing Over Dead People

| Posted 10.05.2011 | UK Entertainment
Read More: James Rhodes, Classical Music, Mozart, Tim Lihoreau, Webern, Tansey Davies, Sir David Tang, Music, Stephen Fry, Composers, Pierre Boulez, A Classical Affair, UK Entertainment News

What is it about classical music that makes us lose words? What is it about it that we find so hard to articulate or to explain? What is it about it that reduces even Stephen Fry - Stephen Fry, the reason the word 'polymath' is still in the dictionary - to an incoherent, pretentious train wreck?

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Stop Listening To So Much Damn Music

| Posted 10.14.2011 | UK
Read More: Barbican Centre, Damien Rice, Noise Pollution, The Doors, Music, London Cocktail Week, Heavy Metals, UK News

I went to bed at about half past eleven last night. That's fairly early for me. (Read on, this gets interesting.) I was quite tired, having finished work late, and then I'd had two cocktails, which were great but did not serve to wake me up. All in all, come half past eleven, I wanted to go to sleep.

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Carhorns or Coldplay? No Contest

| Posted 10.27.2011 | UK Entertainment
Read More: Azalea Ensemble, Music, Kings Place, Contemporary Music, Coldplay, UK Entertainment News

When I argued here recently that contemporary classical music was a good thing, I didn't necessarily mean 'honk a carhorn in my face for ten minutes i...

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