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Tom Service

Tom Service

Music Columnist / Presenter at The Guardian - Arts & Culture

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  • English
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  • Music

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Recent Articles

theguardian.com

The Tchaikovsky competition: time to correct an historic anomaly

Research by pianist Kirill Gerstein has revealed that the standardly performed version of Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto differs substantially from what the composer actually wrote. It’s a shame this year’s competitors haven’t taken the opportunity to perform the authentic version
over 10 years ago
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Hear the painting? How about seeing the music?

The National Gallery’s new Soundscapes exhibition puts masterpieces to music so visitors can experience them in a new way. We boldly go where no curator has gone before with unexpected musical and visual pairings guaranteed to distort any listening experience
over 10 years ago
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A day for Boulez: moving tributes and newly composed homages at the...

Peers and pupils celebrated the French composer-conductor’s legacy with passionate performances of his music and eight new pieces, including two by György Kurtág and Wolfgang Rihm
over 10 years ago
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Music to give you nightmares – 10 of the best

Radio 3 are broadcasting Max Richter’s eight-hour lullaby Sleep on Saturday night, live from the Wellcome Collection. Here, by contrast, are 10 works that certainly won’t give you sweet dreams
about 10 years ago
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Performing sculpture: Calder's mobile comes in for a hammering

The musical and the visual collide satisfyingly in Earle Brown’s composition Calder Piece and Alexander Calder’s sculpture Chef d’orchestre at Tate Modern
about 10 years ago
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Xian Zhang makes conducting history as first woman to have titled r...

The Chinese-born artist is to be the BBC National Orchestra of Wales’s new principal guest conductor. She talks exclusively to Tom Service
about 10 years ago
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Pierre Boulez: 10 key works, selected by Tom Service

There are few parts of the classical music world that do not bear the mark of Boulez’s influence today. Tom Service picks 10 key works that represent the best of the composer and conductor, whose death aged 90 was announced earlier today
almost 10 years ago
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Florence Foster Jenkins: we may laugh, but to be this bad took talent

David Bowie was a fan of the ‘world’s worst singer’, but is the epithet a fair one?
over 9 years ago
theguardian.com

Sheku Kanneh-Mason: 'Classical music isn't elitist – the problem is...

This year’s BBC Young Musician winner has had to balance revising for exams with preparing for his Royal Festival Hall concerto debut. And then there’s finding time to beat his brother at football ...
over 9 years ago
theguardian.com

Roger Norrington: a maverick, an irresistible firebrand and a music...

The conductor, whose historically informed evangelism helped transform the classical music world, has died. Tom Service remembers a man who looked to the past to find a fresh and thrilling present.
5 months ago
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‘It’s a symbol of hope and defiance for Ume Sámi and its speakers’:...

Joiking comes to the Proms this weekend in a collaboration between Katarina Barruk and violinist Pekka Kuusisto. The two tell us how they have enriched each other’s musical worlds
3 months ago