"There are only two things I know of which are guaranteed in my life – the love I have for my son, and the love I have for music. And – cue X Factor sob-story violins – music is what happened to me when I was seven. Specifically classical music. More specifically, Johann Sebastian Bach. And if you wa"
"Back to the Chaconne. When his first wife, the great love of his life dies, he writes a piece of music in her memory. It is for solo violin, one of the six (of course) partitas he composed for that instrument. But it isn’t really just a piece of music. It is a musical fucking cathedral built in her "
"Abuse. What a word. Rape is better. Abuse is when you tell a traffic warden to fuck off. It isn’t abuse when a forty-year-old man forces his cock inside a six-year-old boy’s ass. That doesn’t even come close to abuse. That is aggressive rape. It leads to multiple surgeries, scars (inside and out), t"
"There are just so many issues, complications and difficulties with classical music. As a genre it seems to have become the musical equivalent of cranking – crying while wanking because you’re so ashamed of what it is you’re thinking about. Classical music has to stop apologising for itself. The prob"
"He(Scriabin) and Rachmaninov were the Blur v. Oasis of late nineteenth-century Russian music. And, sadly, no one was more famous during his lifetime, and few were more quickly ignored after his death than Scriabin. His Piano Concerto, written before his shift to more far-flung harmonic landscapes, i"
"乐团间的竞争十分正常,但竞争不伤和气更显重要。Damon Albarn(Blur 乐队主唱)作为Alan McGee的朋友被邀请参加庆祝《Supersonic》成为销量榜第一的派对,他很大度地出席了,结果,当时20岁的Liam在席间对着Damon做着鬼脸:“Na Na Na……我们是第一,可惜你不是”。这真的惹恼了Damon,派对结束后Damon恶狠狠对朋友说,我一定要给Liam好好上一课。于是Blur孤注一掷地提前了单曲《Country House》的发行时间,给予还在庆祝中的Oasis “绿洲”一个沉重的还击。这件事被惟恐天下不乱的媒体捕风捉影,夸大为Oasis “绿洲”与Blur的一场争"