| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 20-Jan-2013 Southbank Centre: Royal Festival Hall | Music worth fighting over: Schoenberg's First Chamber Symphony at The Rest is Noise |
 You are sitting in the choir stalls of the Royal Festival Hall, watching the ceramic artist and writer Edmund de Waal address you, his back to an enormous sea of empty, grey, imposing seats. He is delivering a vivid narrative account of a day in the life of a young aristocratic Jewish boy in early 20th-century Vienna. He puts you, his audience, in the protagonist’s shoes, referring to this character as “you”. Quite taken with this technique, you later decide to write your review of the event in the same style.
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| 13-Jan-2012 Barbican Centre: Hall | Oliver Knussen and the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a fascinating programme |
 Oliver Knussen has a reputation for presenting interesting and unusual programmes, and this evening in the sumptuous Barbican Hall was no exception. This concert featured new and rarely-performed music, including both a world première and a UK première.
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