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‘We’re going to have a tonal centre and tap our feet, and that’s the way it is.’ Steve Reich is in full flow, talking to me from his home in New York. ‘The big break, the knife down the line, was betw

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Broadcaster and biographer Humphrey Burton became familiar to millions of television viewers in the early 1980s as the genial presenter of the BBC’s Young Musician of the Year, the programme he launch

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