Jonathan Derbyshire

Recently in this magazine, Holger Czukay recalled attending the first performance, in Bremen in 1968, of Kurzwellen (“short waves”), Karlheinz Stockhausen’s work for piano, electronium (an early monophonic synthesiser), tam-tam gong, viola and four short-wave radio receivers.
Read the rest of my review of Holger Czukay’s recent show at the Roundhouse in this week’s New Statesman.

This review Ben Wilson’s book What Price Liberty appears in the May issue of the Literary Review:
At the centre of St George’s Circus, in a traffic-choked corner of south London close to the Elephant and Castle, stands an obelisk. On one side, and rather crammed in beneath the date the structure was built (’The XIth [...]