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Classical-Iconoclast

http://classical-iconoclast.blogspot.com

Frequently updated, always lively, a music blog that's actually about music ! Orchestral, chamber, opera, song. Good for new music, modern opera, Messiaen, Chinese music, European festivals - different and provocative. Emphasis on live performance reviews

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  • Xmas card Messiah ENO

    Posted on Sunday November 29th, 2009 at 03:06 in handel, eno, john mark ainsley

    It’s Christmas and the bells on tills are jingling! Deborah Warner’s Messiah at the ENO is a Christmas card writ large, designed to corner the Christmas market. “Are we like sheep?” goes Handel’s libretto. “Yes!” suggests Warner, projec...

  • Cantonese Cajuns

    Posted on Saturday November 28th, 2009 at 15:41 in chinese movies, cajun music

    Cajuns and Cantonese! Jambalaya sung in Chinese by San Ma Tsai, in the 1950's. San Ma Tsai translates as "New Horse Boy", I don't know his real name but that's his stage name. He was an opera singer and comedian who loved doing satires like this. ...

  • Turkeys for Enid Blyton

    Posted on Thursday November 26th, 2009 at 15:07 in literature and society

    Readers in the US, enjoy a good holiday! The values of Thanksgiving are good, lots to be grateful for.Brits have Enid Blyton. Last week a reader told me about his defining Blyton moment. It was a story about a Cub Scout doing "bob a job", which is wh...

  • A sweet way to go gay

    Posted on Wednesday November 25th, 2009 at 16:39

    Make up your own risqué comments. This ad just begs for them. It comes off a great blog I follow called Musty Moments. "Scouring history for cheap laughs". Who said working in archives can't be fun !...

  • Ma Sicong - why Chinese composers matter

    Posted on Saturday November 21st, 2009 at 13:28 in chinese culture, chinese music, ma sicong

    Ma Sicong (1912-1987) is important because he was a major Chinese composer who wrote western classical music, but influenced by Chinese traditional music - think Bartók, Ravel, Janáček creating their music from folk forms. Some of Ma's music is s...

  • Secret Chinese restaurant, London

    Posted on Saturday November 21st, 2009 at 11:37 in London, chinese culture

    London's best kept secret Chinese restaurant is open again! Loon Fung is the wholesaler who supplies most Chinese restaurants in the London area, huge floorspace where you can buy rice by the tonne, cooking oil in industrial cans, and saucepans a me...

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This blog is currently rated a 5.00 out of a possible 5 based on 1 comment.

5 stars Roger Thomas

Astute. deeply knowledgeable, critical but fairminded. The blogger's eye is always on the ball for what is important in what has just happened or is about to happen. If you want to learn about new or not so new "classical" music, this is the place to come

Posted: December 1st, 2008 | Report This Comment

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