Stories by tintinnabula

A few steps and mis-steps in the early years of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto

Le Corbusier’s Algerian Fantasy: Blocking the Casbah

Opposite of modern

Debussy: the musical genius who erupted out of nowhere

Against Popular Culture

‘Your foes look for you’: revealing a secret message in a piece of music

On a small Greek island, practitioners of an ancient whistling language

Josef Frank’s Modernist Vision: 'Accidentism'

Keeping the Art of Silent Film Music Alive

Bryan Ferry on how Roxy Music invented art pop: 'We were game for anything'

Mark E Smith, lead singer with the Fall, dies aged 60

Howl: a nostalgic homage to the brief, hazy era of “pure” London punk

Everyday Soviet Nostalgia

The Musical Machiavelli

Inside Otis Redding's Final Masterpiece

Konrad Kujau, Who Forged Hitler's Diaries

When Orson Welles Interviewed Andy Kaufman (1982)

Carrie Fisher’s Private Philosophy Coach

The best books on Wagner

The Simpsons in China and Bullet Subtitles

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