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Meditations on captivity and liberation
BEN LUNN remembers the Italian composer Luigi Dallapiccola, whose embrace of serialism and the 12-tone scale coincided with his rejection with fascism
HANDLING HORROR: (L to R) Boethius, Luigi Dallapiccola, Mary Stuart and Girolamo Savonarola
GORDON PARSONS steps warily through the pessimistic world view of an influential US conservative
HENRY BELL takes issue with the assertion that basic income is a remedy for poverty when it doesn’t address the inbuilt inequality of capitalism
RON JACOBS welcomes an investigation of the murders of US leftist activists that tells the story of a solidarity movement in Chile
RITA DI SANTO surveys the smorgasbord of films on offer at this year’s festival
Reviews of A New Kind Of Wilderness, The Marching Band, Good One and Magic Farm by MARIA DUARTE, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA
SCOTT ALSWORTH foresees the coming of the smaller, leaner, and class conscious indie studio, with art as its guiding star
2024 is a year of many significant anniversaries and milestones.
The third of February marked the 120th anniversary of the Italian composer Luigi Dallapiccola who was no stranger to political turmoil and deserves serious reflection in terms of how artists can respond to national and international events.
Born in Pisino d’Istra, Dallapiccola grew up in political uncertainty. His father, who was a headmaster of the local school, had been deemed politically suspect and his whole family had been imprisoned at Graz in Styria for about two years. After this turmoil, Dallapiccola went onto study composition and was notably influenced by the musical discoveries of Schoenberg.
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