Tag: Change
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‘Great Tidal Waves of Energy’: Music’s Revolutionary Zeal
‘The oddest person… and at the same time the most rare and consistently witty’ is how Russian composer Igor Stravinsky is supposed to have ‘praised’ his French contemporary Erik Satie (1866-1925)*. Music is not just tolerant of eccentricity. It seems to embrace it in ways that other domains iron out. Paul Kildea’s new biography on…