In his early years as artistic director of the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Graham McKenzie introduced a festival slogan: ‘Music Lives in Everything’. “Suffering grief at that age, and something about classical music gets right deep and down, and I guess I fast-tracked the deep and down side of my soul through what happened. 3, Sz. Each week, Tom and Kate will showcase recordings. This entry was posted in Features on October 26, 2016 by Kate Molleson. Her documentaries (BBC Radio 4, BBC World Service) include a portrait of Ethiopian pianist/composer Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam. Event details. 30 minutes. She began studying the sitar with her father at the age of seven; in terms of musical lineage, it doesn’t get much more direct. This entry was posted in Live Reviews on August 15, 2015 by Kate Molleson. T here were bouquets and balloons for the Scottish Chamber Orchestra's 40th birthday; a packed house, a warm home crowd and a rare. First published in the Guardian on 17 December, 2015. Faber, 2022, 314 pp. SCO/Gardiner; Aimard/Tamestit/Simpson Usher Hall; Queen’s Hall. First published in The Herald on 26 March, 2014. £18. Back Submit. A radical new book by journalist, critic and BBC Radio 3 broadcaster Kate Molleson, which fundamentally changes the way we think about classical music and the musicians who made it on a global scale. To find out, Kate Molleson travelled 1,000 miles across the country to meet latest star Ariunbaatar Ganbaatar, drinking mare’s milk, sleeping in yurts and recording its vocal masters Kate MollesonBrief Summary of Book: Sound Within Sound: Radical Composers of the Twentieth Century by Kate Molleson. 2016 by Kate Molleson. The Hilliard Ensemble turn 40 this year, and also hang up their boots. 15 EDT Last modified on Fri 13 Sep 2019 07. Kate Molleson: ‘enthusiastic style and eye for character’. The Bad Plus, Carter, Mahler. A minimum of one tooth was observed in each individual. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. Big Issue column 31. Macleod has been the voice of Composer of the Week since 1999, introducing approximately 950 series, exploring the minds behind the music. This is a book of discovery that speaks of music as a life force, that urges us to live. . Kate Molleson. 4. On merfolk, selkies and Sally Beamish’s new ballet score for The Little Mermaid. A radical and compelling new history of 20th century composers, shining light on the sonic pioneers whose work transformed musical history. Kate Molleson visits Glyndebourne Festival Opera to hear about its new production of Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers, and Tom Service meets conductor Michael Tilson Thomas. The number of biographies and autobiographies of artists is colossal, but what makes Sound within Sound unique is the largely unknown contributions of the ten twentieth-century artists Kate Molleson has featured. Who can say for sure. ”. Interview: Graham McKenzie on 40 years of Huddersfield. First published in the Guardian on 14 August, 2016. ”. The job is more collaborative, more sociable. 2019 by Kate Molleson. Sound — Scotland’s festival of new music, a two-and-a-half-week series of concerts in and around Aberdeen — has announced John De Simone as its inaugural Composer in. In an age of overstretched arts funding, when it is increasingly difficult for small, non-mainstream venues to stay afloat amid commercial heavyweights, Dear Green Sounds is a testament to what a diversity of live arts does for the wellbeing of any city. Kate Molleson. The Berlin Philharmonic came to Glasgow, twice, for the first time since the 1950s. H. First published in The Herald on 3 June, 2015. The Honky Tonk Nun. And we visit the home of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment - a school in London. 15 EDT Last modified on Fri 13 Sep 2019 07. Fri 8 Apr 2016 09. This set of questions provides potentially useful context for Kate Molleson’s masterful new book, Sound Within Sound. First published in the Guardian on 23 April, 2015. Excuse the cheesy grin but am southbound for bit of a dream gigInterview: Ashley Page. The latest in new music. The international sweep of her book is especially compelling when she is travelling: when she is in “dusty. 2015 by Kate Molleson. SOUND WITHIN SOUND by Kate Molleson - ISBN 10: 0571363237 - ISBN 13: 9780571363230 - Faber Faber - 2023 - SoftcoverFirst published in The Herald on 25 November, 2015. Where did the time go? I used to think that 60 was ancient – some unimaginable age when you’d get to ride the buses for free and go swimming at 11 in the morning. who has died at the age of 99, seemed to reflect every area of her extraordinary life. 59 mins; 05 Sep 2022; Franz Schubert (1797-1828). Sub-Genre: Music. This entry was posted in Features on August 18, 2018 by Kate Molleson. His second effort, L’amico Fritz, is as pastel and sweet as Cav is blood. Retaining the same timeslot on Saturday evenings, New Music Show will feature a regular new presenting line-up of Tom Service and Kate Molleson. Faber, 2022, 314 pp. Interview: Fred Frith. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Behind the scenes in Edinburgh – part 2. I was in Jerusalem to make a documentary about Emahoy. From 2010-2017 she was a music. Innovators widening our musical horizons. Born in 1923, she. Fri 7 Feb 2014 11. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley community to discover, request, read, and review. Yorkshire-born Hannah French is a musical butterfly: a broadcaster and academic, a public speaker and educator, and a baroque flautist. Kate Molleson. 45pm. The point was this: a prescient comment on how isolated we might become in the age of virtual communication. Thu 3 Dec 2015 08. According to the country’s state-run news outlet Fana Broadcasting Corporate, she died in. Kate Molleson recommends recordings of Bartók's Piano Concerto No. Review: The Eighth Door / Bluebeard’s Castle. Show more. First published in the Guardian on 30 March, 2017. Kate Molleson is a journalist and broadcaster, and one of the UK's leading commentators on contemporary classical music. 🧐 😀. “Emahoy brought a beautiful new sound into the world that is rooted both in the Western classical music heritage and in the Ethiopian musical. Georg Philipp Telemann was a canny operator. “It was the first time I’d said yes to anything. Kate Molleson travels to Jerusalem to meet a legend of Ethiopian music, the piano-playing nun, Emahoy Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou. Freed from state intervention, he was to remain artistically and personally independent from any particular orthodoxies for the rest of his life. Venue: Alison House, Atrium (G10) Abstract. Polar Bear is London’s fiercely imaginative jazz-ish five-piece led by drummer Seb Rochford. Readers of a certain age may recall the Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club on television in the Seventies, when the cloth-capped Colin Crompton. 49 EDT. This is the impassioned and exhilarating story of the composers who dared to challenge the conventional world of classical music in the twentieth century. 21 EDT. Kate Molleson tells. Kate Molleson. For nearly three decades Emahoy has lived in a monastery in. Onwards to his next band, the London Symphony Orchestra, who come to EIF for two nights. Back in the early 1990s, Richard Goode became the first American pianist (the first pianist born in the United States, that is) to record the complete set of Beethoven piano sonatas. T his might just be Nicola Benedetti’s best recording yet. The international sweep of her book is especially compelling when she is travelling: when she is in “dusty, nervy, loud” Jerusalem to meet the 93-year-old bed-bound Ethiopian pianist and former. We use. Here’s a dismal statistic. Kate Molleson tells. - Volume 76 Issue 302 Kate Molleson. She studied performance in Montreal and musicology in London, where she specialised in. “woman of my age had to bring up the kids. Episodes ( 4 Available) Piers Hellawell’s Rapprochement. She currently presents BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show and Music Matters. ‘Wonderful . This entry was posted in Features on May 22, 2014 by Kate Molleson. I meet the dancer, choreographer and former artistic director of Scottish Ballet not at the dance company’s Southside HQ but across the river at the rehearsal studios of Scottish Opera, where he’s. First published in the Guardian on 9 May, 2016. . “I write this book out of love and anger. Kate Molleson tells. And we visit the home of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment - a. Show more. Danielle de Niese is doing at least five things at once. Kate Molleson is a journalist and broadcaster, and one of the UK’s leading commentators on contemporary classical music. This entry was posted in Features on April 11, 2017 by Kate Molleson. Time: 5. Kate Molleson is a Glasgow-based music critic. 31 EDT. Ep. Interview: Graham McKenzie on 40 years of Huddersfield. Kate Molleson is a Glasgow-based music critic. Jun 24, 2018, 1:30 AM [ 5] Citation Link linkedin. It was composed in 1853 but deemed so weird at the time that it wasn’t performed until 1937 when it was hijacked for Nazi propaganda. First published in the Guardian on 24 March, 2016. £18. I never wanted to have kids because I didn’t want to spend my. Monday 22 May marks Kate Molleson’s debut in the Composer of the Week presenting seat, as she joins Donald Macleod to introduce 10 series of the programme in 2023. Show more. Sam Lee & friends. Great to be apart of this wonderful company! Perteet Inc. Tom Service has presented Music Matters on Radio 3 since 2003. His was a towering account of the great 32, full of insight and unfussy intellect. This entry was posted in Live Reviews on March 24, 2014 by Kate Molleson. We are delighted to announce the shortlists for the RPS Awards – billed by BBC Radio 3 as ‘the BAFTAs of classical music’ – and invite you to join us for the event on 1 March, with tickets from only £10. Number of Pages: 352. Kate Molleson. Choose from Same Day Delivery, Drive Up or Order Pickup. Kate Molleson is a journalist and broadcaster and one of the UK's leading commentators on contemporary classical music. Thu 21 Apr 2016 10. First published by Sinfini on 11 August, 2014. In Cassandra. John McCabe: Piano Music John McCabe (Naxos) John McCabe was a musician of steely, graceful intellect. 1. Kate Molleson and a female throat singer with swan head fiddle Let us know you agree to cookies. Kate Molleson visits Greenland, the world’s largest island, to explore the role of traditional and new music for its communities today. ”. Kate Molleson and Kevin Le Gendre discuss the turning points in John’s early. Speaker: Kate Molleson. 50 EDT First published on Tue 21 May 2019 11. Kate Molleson. First published in the Guardian on 17 April, 2017. Feb 02 2023 17. August 18, 2022 11:37pm. Approximate run time: 1 hour 30 mins. Journalist and BBC Radio 3 broadcaster Kate Molleson discusses her award-winning Sound Within Sound (Faber, 2022) – “a radical new book which fundamentally changes the way we think about classical music and the. Violinist Rachel Podger, if you can pin her down, is a bright spark. Kate Molleson visits Greenland, the world’s largest island, to explore the role of traditional and new music for its communities today. 55pm, The Times. Collector, tradition-bearer, troubadour, the most interesting young voice in English folk. Faber will publish the as yet untitled work by Kate Molleson in Spring 2022. First published in The Herald on 23 August, 2017 . She currently presents BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show and Music Matters. Photograph: Kate Molleson. Her mother asked if she wanted to take harp lessons. She first broadcast on Radio 3 as a panellist on the short. She presents BBC Radio 3's New Music Show and Music Matters, and her articles are published in the Guardian, The Herald, BBC Music Magazine, Opera, Gramophone and elsewhere. 1 hour, 27 minutes. Kate Molleson meets Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho in Paris - the city she has made her home since 1982. Mahler’s long farewell — Adorno once called it ‘staring into oblivion’ — is given heartbreaking intensity and tenderness by the Budapest Festival Orchestra, always an. "Sound Within Sound: Opening our Ears to the 20th century" is out in. Kate Molleson is the author of Sound Within Sound (4. Home. Genre: Biography + Autobiography. 51 EDT. She presents BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show and Music Matters , and her articles have been published in the Guardian , New Statesman , Prospect , the Herald , BBC Music Magazine and elsewhere. £ 15. SCO/Swensen Town House, Hamilton. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Sound Within Sound: Radical Composers of the Twentieth Century written by Kate Molleson which was published in 2022-7-7. David Watkin, newly-anointed Head of Strings at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, is leaning forward at his desk, describing in animated detail a class he intends to introduce to the RCS curriculum. First published in The Herald on 21 March, 2018. Emahoy Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou is a 90-year-old Ethiopian nun whose piano music is like none other: bluesy, spiritual and spacious, it’s music rooted in the unique traditions of Addis Ababa yet also timeless and placeless. Kate Molleson. A magnetic teacher with major institutional clout to play with – king heavyweight at the heaviest-weight new music school in post-war Europe. Last year the Scottish Chamber Orchestra announced that 32-year-old Martin Suckling is to be their new Associate Composer. The Victorians knew full-well the power of live music and rallied on an industrial scale. Fifty years after his death, the Russian iconoclast remains indefinable – a stylistic chameleon who continues to confound his audiences. First published in the Scottish Chamber Orchestra autumn 2017 newsletter, then in The Herald on 18 October, 2017. 2014 by Kate Molleson. First published in The Herald on 13 April, 2016. First published in The Herald on 26 August, 2013. Kate Molleson continues her summer series celebrating the talents of the current BBC Radio 3 New. Kate Molleson. Listen now. . The orchestra had already given the first and second performances of Suckling’s shimmering storm, rose, tiger; in February they premiere a major new commission called Six Speechless Songs to. Kate Molleson promotes contemporary music on her Radio 3 shows. I f you don’t know the deft and gossamer music of Bryn Harrison, this album would be a beautiful place to start. Kate Molleson travels to Cairo to discover a lost aural music tradition of microtonal finesse, potently emotional voices and spectacularly skilful instrumentalists. Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up. First published in The Herald on 14 October, 2015 At the end of December, 1967, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) aired an experimental radio documentary called The Idea of North. . First published in the Guardian on 17 November, 2016. 20 EDT. As part of Radio 3's New Year New Music, Kate Molleson talks at length to one of. Kate Molleson revels in the spry and subtly surprising music of Germaine Tailleferre, with guests Barbara Kelly and Caroline Potter. A radical new book by journalist, critic and BBC Radio 3 broadcaster Kate Molleson, which fundamentally changes the way we think about classical music and the musicians who made it on a global scale. 2014 by Kate Molleson. Puerto Rican astrophysicist Wanda Diaz-Merced is revolutionising space science through sound, enabling exploration of the cosmos by ear. Her book is a study of ten composers she admires but who she feels have been left out of official histories of the last century. The first composer chosen, on 2 August 1943, was Mozart, followed over the following four weeks by Beethoven, Schubert, Bach and Haydn. “To cure me of a case of the jitters, would you sing a song?” Karine Polwart asked her Celtic Connections audience, who cheerfully obliged with a round of Matt McGinn’s daft number Oor Wee Wean can Sook a Bar of Chocolate (“promoting. She says she’s taking stock, trying out new things. Post navigationAn album devoted to the golden age of bel canto Lucia di Lammermoor (Erato, 2014). For the last Music Matters of the season, Kate explores the connections between music and language by revisiting her recent trips through parts of England, Scotland. This entry was posted in CD Reviews on August 6, 2017 by Kate Molleson. Mahler: Ninth Symphony Budapest Festival Orchestra/Fischer. Kate Molleson: Rewriting the Musical Canon. Monday 22 May marks Kate Molleson’s debut in the Composer of the Week presenting seat, as she joins Donald Macleod to introduce 10. . This survey of ten composers, all basically at one or another extreme of twentieth century music composition, is highly readable. £18. 00 EST Last modified on Tue 18 Apr 2017 11. They say the way to deal with nerves is straight-up. By Kate Molleson. Format: Hardcover. Donald, from Kirkintilloch, parlayed a degree in psychology and arts from St Andrews into a job as a BBC studio manager back in 1977, became a Radio 3 presenter. She was a classical music critic for the Guardian for seven. Kate Molleson is a journalist and broadcaster, and one of the UK's leading commentators on contemporary classical music. 00 EDT Last modified on Tue 17 Jan 2023 07. Schedule. CD review: John McCabe plays John McCabe. “I don’t care how much anyone tells you about technique,” she says. Sack the lot at rotten Radio 3 2022-10-01 - Michael Henderson on Radio there is no point in sugaring the pill: Radio 3 has a death wish. Engaged in all styles of music, she was. Home. , 2010) dentition. A radical new book by journalist, critic and BBC Radio 3 broadcaster Kate Molleson, which fundamentally changes the way we think about classical music and the musicians who made it on a global scale. She has worked a multitude of positions in these fields, and has been able to build her experience globally while working in a large. Formation stages were compared to standards that provide estimates of age for the deciduous (Liversidge and Molleson, 2004) and permanent (AlQhatani et al. SOUND WITHIN SOUND by Kate Molleson - ISBN 10: 0571363237 - ISBN 13: 9780571363230 - Faber Faber - 2023 - SoftcoverKate Molleson. She currently presents BBC Radio 3's . ”. Our Classical Century. Date: Thursday 9 March 2023. . This entry was posted in Features on November 10, 2014 by Kate Molleson. It’s a nuanced case, this, so bear with me. 2016 by Kate Molleson. He started playing piano at the age of seven and progressed dramatically fast. Quotas should be introduced to broaden the range of classical music composers featured in. I was the same at their age. Kate Molleson. This entry was posted in Features on July 8, 2014 by Kate Molleson. However, I’m reserving my greatest excitement for Sound Within Sound: Opening Our Ears to the Twentieth Century (Faber, July), in which Kate Molleson, the Radio 3 presenter, will tell the story. Kate Molleson is a music journalist who regularly presents BBC Radio 3 programmes including Breakfast, Music Matters and Afternoon Concert. 26 EST. Tue 21 May 2019 11. Kate Molleson Wed 25 Jan 2017 07. Personally, I struggled with naming composers who fit into these categories, such has been my own experience of the lack of media and educational bandwidth afforded those of more diverse backgrounds, who have otherwise. . The times an artist unveiled a bold new work or a change in. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Sound Within Sound: Radical Composers of the Twentieth Century written by Kate Molleson which was published in 2022-7-7. 50 avg rating, 10 ratin. This entry was posted in Features on April 6, 2016 by Kate Molleson. When Radio 3 presenter and critic Kate Molleson was a child, she would take her Fisher-Price tape machine to bed, clutching it like a cuddly toy, falling asleep to Monteverdi madrigals. CD review: Thomas Zehetmair’s Schumann. ' COSEY FANNI TUTTI By genre: Music > Classical. Her work is known for frequently utilising the process of transcription of a variety of pre-existing pieces of music. 2013 by Kate Molleson. This entry was posted in CD Reviews on October 28, 2017 by Kate Molleson. Listen now. 4y Report this post Report Report. On merfolk, selkies and Sally Beamish’s new ballet score for The Little Mermaid. The station presents the Top 100 pieces from the century throughout the course of the year which will be led by presenters Kate Molleson, Kate Romano and Gillian Moore. This is a book of discovery that speaks of music as a life force, that urges us to live our lives through music. First published in the Guardian on 27 April, 2017. appeared in the March 2017 issue of Gramophone and we republish it as a tribute to the composer, who has died at the age of. <br /> <br /> The twentieth century was the century of modernity. Number of pages: 368. It’s standard etiquette to say that someone. The 82-year-old French composer was a pioneer of electronic music in the 1950s and for. A celebration of radical creativity. ” He started playing the piano, which he calls his “grief balm”, he. Review: Tectonics 2016. Post navigation. First published in The Herald on 2 October, 2013. In an exclusive extract from her new book Sound Within Sound, Kate Molleson explores the complicated cultural legacy of Filipino composer José Maceda. A radical new book by journalist, critic and BBC Radio 3 broadcaster Kate Molleson, which fundamentally changes the way we think about classical music and the musicians who made it on a global scale. Kate Molleson meets conductor Neeme Järvi - a towering figure in Estonian music, patriarch of a conducting dynasty, and the recent recipient of a Gramophone Lifetime Achievement Award. “And it was naive and terrible and thankfully came to an end halfway down page 34. Mascagni’s first opera was the mega hit Cavalleria Rusticana and he spent the rest of his life trying to live up to it. A mong all the dauntingly good young string quartets currently doing the rounds,. Kate Molleson, A radical new book by journalist, critic and BBC Radio 3 broadcaster Kate Molleson, which fundamentally changes the way we think about classical music and the musicians who made it on a global scale. Ashley Page is back in Glasgow, though in a new part of town. The love, because I want to shout from the rooftops that classical music is gripping, essential, personally and politically game changing. 3/5 - Summer Series - Anastasia Kobekina, Alessandro Fisher, Alexander Gadjiev, Rob Luft. One soul who will not hear the bugle’s call is Elizabeth Alker, who is being groomed as the new Kate Molleson — and if you think one Molleson is one too many, you stand in excellent company. It’s that time. Introduced by Kate Molleson live from the Royal Albert Hall, Glyndebourne Festival Opera presents the opera for the first time with its original score and French libretto. Dove, one of Britain’s most compelling, accessible, prolific and socially engaged opera composers, is turning 60. Composer of the Week. Two very different 20th-century violin concertos. Despite the awkward physical demands of the instrument she took to it with virtuosic flair and was soon touring the world with Ravi. First published in The Herald on 26 November, 2014. Seriously. What to do with Bluebeard’s Castle? Bartok’s single-act opera is so devastatingly complete, so ravaging in musical and emotional impact that it needs nothing more or less. First published in the Guardian on 14 January, 2016. Show more As Mental Health Awareness Week draws to a close, Kate Molleson surveys the musical world's. “Hers were some of the most extraordinary 99 years ever lived on this earth,” Kate Molleson,. Be ready to look up a lot of very interesting recordings. A radical new book by journalist, critic and BBC Radio 3 broadcaster Kate Molleson, which fundamentally changes the way we think about. Take the Dublin four-piece Lynched: beatnik,. KATE MOLLESON is a journalist and broadcaster and one of the UK’s leading commentators on contemporary classical music. Sound Within Sound: Opening Our Ears to the Twentieth Century English | 2022 | ASIN: B0B8JX5HR5 | MP3@64 kbps | 10h 24m | 286 MB. ”In the age of #MeToo,” Carsen concluded, “not everything has to be bent to fit. Photograph: Kate Molleson. Kate Molleson talks to American Jazz pianist Brad Mehldau and reflects on 20 years of the period-instrument ensemble Les Siècles with conductor François. 79 ratings11 reviews. Find Charles Molleson's 🔍 contact information, 📞 phone numbers, 🏠 home addresses, age, background check, white pages, photos and videos, social media profiles, arrest records, resumes and CV, public records, related names, places of employment, work history and memorialsComposer of the Week is to be shared between the Venerable Donald Macleod, approaching 65, and Kate Molleson (age unverifiable - see, we can all do transparency). Because since founding the John Wilson Orchestra in 1994, his dedication to the music of Hollywood’s golden age has achieved a two-way thing: on the one side he has enticed fans of light music into the concert hall. Age recommendation. Jesús López Cobos conducts. She presents BBC Radio 3's New Music Show and Music Matters, and her articles are published in the Guardian, The Herald, BBC Music Magazine, Opera, Gramophone and elsewhere. . Kate Molleson Tuesday, April 19, 2022. This entry was posted in Live Reviews on February 13, 2014 by Kate Molleson. Exciting content features. Radio 3 presenter Kate Molleson celebrates a composer whose music is particularly important to her: the Frenchwoman Eliane Radigue, whose calm and long-form sense of perspective. Kate Molleson Wed 17 Feb 2016 08. More interesting than the simple numbers game is a prevailing acceptance of gendered aesthetics. Learn more about Kate Molleson. First published in The Herald on 2 October, 2013. Kate Molleson meets Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho in Paris, the city she has made her home since 1982. This entry was posted in Features on April 11, 2017 by Kate Molleson. 99 £9. For many years he dressed in orange jumpers, then latterly all in white. 50 EDT David McVicar 's 14-year-old take on Puccini's Madama Butterfly has become a Scottish Opera stalwart, the kind of bullet-proof production that any company. She presents BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show and Music Matters , and her articles have been published in the Guardian , New Statesman , Prospect , The Herald , BBC Music Magazine and elsewhere. 43 EST Last modified on Thu 26 Mar 2020 08. The World's Largest Island. £10. 2014 by Kate Molleson. This is a book of discovery that speaks of music as a life force, that urges. Interview: Richard Goode. First published in The Herald on 21 March, 2018. Thu 6 Jul, 7. Terrible. Home. First published in the Guardian on 18 September, 2017. 21 EDT. Since Cleopatra, you see, there are always questions about my beauty…” the food arrives and she trails off to manoeuvre a. The Blind Astronomer. The composer talks about buildings in vivid musical terms: the rhythms, the phrasing, the forms, the bold cacophony of lines and gestures. The Blind Astronomer. Of all the composers who sit behind that barrier in time of The Advent of Modernism around 1914, Mendelssohn is perhaps the one who most needs us to work at hearing him with pre-industrial ears. ” That’s how festival director Fiona Robertson sums up the difference between Sound and other contemporary music festivals. 4:49 PM · Apr 22, 2023.