John cage nick shave explores the nuts and bolts of an avant gardist whose creative genius goes well beyond his famous 4'33" of not-quite-silence

The playful, melancholic genius of Erik Satie

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Celine Dion, a tree made of coat hangers, Crufts… Thirty years after the startling experiments of Tilt defined SCOTT WALKER ’ s latter-day career, his collaborators reveal all about the idiosyncratic working practices that took him from teen idol to avant-garde hero. “It was almost like a rejection of his past,” one eyewitness tells Rob Hughes. “Almost like anti-music.”

Poetry that blends music, mortality and fame

A Chekhovian opera from Colin Matthews and William Boyd

Life on the outside It has been two ...