First published in The Herald on 13 June, 2018; photo of Kate MccGwire's Sasse/Sluice at Snape Thea Musgrave — Scottish composer, conductor, pianist and teacher who turned 90 last month — thrusts a glass of wine into my hand. She has presented documentaries for. From 2010-2017 she was a music. Content from our. Kate Molleson Wednesday, March 6, 2019 When it comes to the music of this admired Scottish composer, it’s all about the drama below the surface, writes Kate Molleson. Kate Molleson chooses her favourite recording of Bartók's The Miraculous Mandarin. David Watkin, newly-anointed Head of Strings at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, is leaning forward at his desk, describing in animated detail a class he intends to introduce to the RCS curriculum. True, it’s only half-an-hour and involves a cast of three, but it’s a Scottish premiere of a new work by one of Scotland’s leading composers, and it has the makings of a compelling, challenging drama. First published in The Herald on 5 February, 2014. T here is real heritage here: formed in Moscow in 1945, the original Borodins learned Shostakovich’s quartets. Available now. 19 EST. Kate Molleson presents classical music on BBC Radio 3 Kate Molleson/Twitter. On the. Kate Molleson talks to American Jazz pianist Brad Mehldau and reflects on 20 years of the period-instrument ensemble Les Siècles with conductor François. She was a classical music critic for the Guardian for seven years and deputy editor of Opera magazine. The first composer chosen, on 2 August 1943, was Mozart, followed over the following four weeks by Beethoven, Schubert, Bach and Haydn. We're answering all your Kate Middleton (Duchess of Cambridge) questions—including her age, height, children, birthplace, family, fashion and marriage to Prince William in honor of her birthday. The international sweep of her book is especially compelling when she is travelling: when she is in “dusty, nervy, loud” Jerusalem to meet the 93-year-old bed. First published in The Herald on 8 April, 2015. Back Submit. Her love of Bach, Beethoven, Vivaldi and Tchaikovsky followed soon after; then her interests moved to ambitious modern composers, many of whom were not western. Show more. Kyung Wha Chung is back. £10. 17 EDT. Kate Molleson presents a live edition of Music Matters from London's Broadcasting House. Kate Molleson marks the 150 anniversary of Sergei Rachmaninov's birth. Tue 13 May 2014 09. Violinist Rachel Podger, if you can pin her down, is a bright spark. - Volume 76 Issue 302 Kate Molleson. Great to be apart of this wonderful company! Perteet Inc. Born in 1923, she. T his might just be Nicola Benedetti’s best recording yet. 99. At the age of seven, she became enthralled by a banjo-harp duo she saw busking at a market. She was a classical music critic for the Guardian for seven years and deputy editor of Opera magazine. Journalist and BBC Radio 3 broadcaster Kate Molleson discusses her award-winning Sound Within Sound (Faber, 2022) – “a radical new book which fundamentally changes the way we think about classical music and the. “Hers were some of the most extraordinary 99 years ever lived on this earth,” Kate Molleson,. Listen live. 80 years of broadcasting history, one esteemed presenter for the past 25… Nae pressure!! First stops: Ligeti, Scarlatti, Tailleferre 💥”Kate Molleson Fri 28 Aug 2015 07. I don’t read anything spiritual into these sounds: they’re very musical, and they’re remarkable natural occurrences, but beyond that I don’t attribute. Catherine, princess of Wales (born January 9, 1982, Reading, Berkshire, England) consort (2011– ) of William, prince of Wales and heir apparent to the British throne. First published in the Guardian on 17 April, 2017. 2013 by Kate Molleson. She studied performance in Montreal and musicology in London, where she specialised in. 00 EDT Last modified on Tue 17 Jan 2023 07. Photograph: Kate Molleson. Show more. Interview: Danielle de Niese. Kate Molleson in conversation with cellist Abel Selaocoe and pianist Leif Ove Andsnes. Kate Molleson is a journalist and broadcaster, and one of the UK's leading commentators on contemporary classical music. This entry was posted in Features on April 11, 2017 by Kate Molleson. Event details. What to do with Bluebeard’s Castle? Bartok’s single-act opera is so devastatingly complete, so ravaging in musical and emotional impact that it needs nothing more or less. “I don’t care how much anyone tells you about technique,” she says. ”. T here are some juicy anomalies at the heart of Tectonics, the festival of new music curated by Ilan Volkov and Alasdair Campbell and hosted by the BBC. Sound — Scotland’s festival of new music, a two-and-a-half-week series of concerts in and around Aberdeen — has announced John De Simone as its inaugural Composer in. This set of questions provides potentially useful context for Kate Molleson’s masterful new book, Sound Within Sound. On merfolk, selkies and Sally Beamish’s new ballet score for The Little Mermaid. Post navigationThis is music from another age, and it only speaks to us if we can let go of our self-consciousness. Our Classical Century. 13 EDT. John McCabe: Piano Music John McCabe (Naxos) John McCabe was a musician of steely, graceful intellect. “It’s hard to believe,” says the 66-year-old violinist, cheerfully slapping the coffee table as if to confirm that yep, all of this is real. Kate Molleson promotes contemporary music on her Radio 3 shows. SCO/Swensen Town House, Hamilton. She currently presents BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show and Music Matters. British Iron Age burials before the 1st century BC are usually found as individuals,. First published in The Herald on 28 May, 2014. She will be joined by a panel of guests, including writer and broadcaster Leah Broad and composer Anna Clyne. Kate Molleson meets conductor Neeme Järvi - a towering figure in Estonian music, patriarch of a conducting dynasty, and the recent recipient of a Gramophone Lifetime Achievement Award. May 16, 2023 | News | 5 comments. ( 14 ) £6. Roland Kayn: A Little Electronic Milky Way of Sound (Frozen Reeds) 22 movements, 14 hours and 16 CDs worth of spangling cosmic sound play: this premiere release of the magnum opus by German composer Roland Kayn is a colossus and a marvel. The world doesn’t need yet another recording of Beethoven’s string quartets, you might well argue, but this terrific cycle from the Elias String Quartet demonstrates how fresh, probing and confrontational a new account can be. Episodes ( 4 Available) Piers Hellawell’s Rapprochement. “They take an idea and they go places with it. Radiocarbon dating of unaccompanied skeletons discovered during the excavation of an Iron Age, Roman and Saxon settlement at Yarnton, Oxfordshire, unexpectedly revealed the presence of a middle Iron Age cemetery (3rd or 4th century cal BC). Faber, 2022, 314 pp. She has presented documentaries for BBC4 and BBC World Service, and she teaches music journalism at. A few year back, an episode of BBC Radio Four’s In Our Time focused on TS Eliot’s The Waste Land. “Hers were some of the most extraordinary 99 years ever lived on this earth,” Kate Molleson,. When Radio 3 presenter and critic Kate Molleson was a child, she would take her Fisher-Price tape machine to bed, clutching it like a cuddly toy, falling asleep to Monteverdi madrigals. First published in BBC Music Magazine, January 2019 George Benjamin began writing his first opera at the age of 12. She visits his home in Switzerland - after years of renovation, the beautiful Villa Senar, on the banks of Lake Lucerne, is. Show more. Kate Molleson travels to Jerusalem to meet a legend of Ethiopian music, the piano-playing nun, Emahoy Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou. This entry was posted in Features on August 18, 2018 by Kate Molleson. Excuse the cheesy grin but am southbound for bit of a dream gigInterview: Ashley Page. Readers of a certain age may recall the Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club on television in the Seventies, when the cloth-capped Colin Crompton. Formation stages were compared to standards that provide estimates of age for the deciduous (Liversidge and Molleson, 2004) and permanent (AlQhatani et al. Review: Tectonics 2015. She presents BBC Radio 3's New Music Show and Music Matters, and her articles are published in the Guardian, The Herald, BBC Music Magazine, Opera, Gramophone and elsewhere. 4. First published in the Guardian on 9 May, 2016. Expect a loose take on the term ‘classical’, and no rankings: how to score Bartok against Beethoven against Eliane. On the day we’re due to speak she has six hours of train travel on various branch lines: she lives in Brecon, a village in the Welsh hills whose charms don’t include speedy access. Show more. Mark’s interest in music began at the age of 8 when he became a choirboy and he has since sung in choirs all his life. Join Facebook to connect with Kate Molleson and others you may know. A radical new book by journalist, critic and BBC Radio 3 broadcaster Kate Molleson, which fundamentally changes the way we think about classical music and the musicians who made it on a global scale. . Kate Molleson continues her summer series celebrating the talents of the current BBC Radio 3 New. Episode 5 of 5. She presents BBC Radio 3's New Music Show and Music Matters, and her articles are published in the Guardian, The Herald, BBC Music Magazine, Opera, Gramophone and elsewhere. Be ready to look up a lot of very interesting recordings. Tue 13 May 2014 09. “woman of my age had to bring up the kids. First published in The Herald on 25 October, 2014 “A little more gentle, a little less hard-edged. First published in The Herald on 13 December, 2017. Her work is known for frequently utilising the process of transcription of a variety of pre-existing pieces of music. You can guess how much my bandmates loved that. Puerto Rican astrophysicist Wanda Diaz-Merced is revolutionising space science through sound, enabling exploration of the cosmos by ear. First published in The Herald on 21 March, 2018. August 18, 2022 11:37pm. Fri 7 Feb 2014 11. Who can say for sure. Time: 5. She presents BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show and Music. A decade of Sound. 76 ratings10 reviews. Click here to find personal data about Molleson including phone numbers, addresses, directorships, electoral roll information, related property prices and other useful information. Abrams. “Emahoy brought a beautiful new sound into the world that is rooted both in the Western classical music heritage and in the Ethiopian musical. Donizetti’s Scottish opera recorded at Munich’s Philharmonie Gasteig with tenor Joseph Calleja as Edgardo and baritone Ludovic Tézier as Enrico. This week Kate Molleson focusses on Northern Ireland. The Escape Artist by Freedland, Sound Within Sound by Molleson, Under the Skin by Villarosa and The Young Accomplice… By Michael Prodger, Ellen Peirson-Hagger, Gavin Jacobson and Pippa BaileyBuy Sound Within Sound: Opening Our Ears to the Twentieth Century Main by Molleson, Kate (ISBN: 9780571363223) from Amazon's Book Store. This entry was posted in CD Reviews on April 15, 2015 by Kate Molleson. The New Zealander Annea Lockwood is just one of the world’s radical musicians unjustly mocked by hidebound snobs, says Kate Molleson From magazine issue: 06 August 2022 4. Kate Molleson is a fine communicator with an excellent appetite for detail. First published in the Guardian on 30 March, 2017. 50 EDT First published on Tue 21 May 2019 11. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. 99 £18. 50 EDT “E njoy yourself,” sings a caustic Ariodante in this darkest of baroque operas. Dimensions: 234 x 153 x 26 mm. 15 EDT Last modified on Mon 3 Dec 2018 10. The Berlin Philharmonic came to Glasgow, twice, for the first time since the 1950s. Buda Musique. Kate Molleson is a music journalist who regularly presents BBC Radio 3 programmes including Breakfast, Music Matters and Afternoon Concert. She lights up when she describes music that has the brutal physicality and. One of my favourite Tippett quotes relates the artists of today — his day, our day — to an age-old tradition that, he said, “goes back into prehistory and will go forward into the unknown future. For ages 16+ Dates & times. Kate Molleson. This entry was posted in Features on May 6, 2015 by Kate Molleson. A radical new book by journalist, critic and BBC Radio 3 broadcaster Kate Molleson, which fundamentally changes the way we think about classical music and the musicians who made it on a global scale. These stories could get easily bogged down in musical jargon, but Molleson’s enthusiastic style and eye for character and place give them life. First published on the Guardian on 29 August, 2013. Soprano Isobel Buchanan is wagging a finger at me intently from across the kitchen table. This is a book of discovery that speaks of music as a life force, that urges us to live our lives through music. Be ready to look up a lot of very interesting recordings. Faber, 2022, 314 pp. The international sweep of her book is especially compelling when she is travelling: when she is in “dusty, nervy, loud” Jerusalem to meet the 93-year-old bed-bound Ethiopian pianist and former. Post navigationKate Molleson: 'Where we are at now is tokenism without thinking of the. Interview: Diana Burrell. Kate Molleson. Dove, one of Britain’s most compelling, accessible, prolific and socially engaged opera composers, is turning 60. This entry was posted in Live Reviews on August 15, 2015 by Kate Molleson. Number of Pages: 352. First published in the Guardian on 23 April, 2015. By the time she was in her late teens. 05 EST. 19 EDT Last modified on Tue 9 Mar 2021 02. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Sound Within Sound: Radical Composers of the Twentieth Century written by Kate Molleson which was published in 2022-7-7. There are no concerns at all about your wonderfully clear presenting style. But at the age of 47, it’s the first time that he has felt ready to commit a solo recital disc. First published in the Guardian on 14 August, 2016. This entry was posted in Features on July 8, 2014 by Kate Molleson. Kate Molleson is a journalist and broadcaster and one of the UK’s leading commentators on contemporary classical music. He lives in Edinburgh. She currently presents BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show and Music Matters. Kate Molleson is joined by Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason, Leah Broad, Anna Clyne and Hilary Hahn for a special live IWD edition of Music Matters. Raised and educated in Cornwall, he started his career at BBC Radio Devon, as a reporter and presenter, at the age of nineteen hosting the station's major news programming, and soon after becoming. This week the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra devote a special two-day retrospective to the music of Elliott Carter. Big Issue column 32. “Something from your country,” she instructed, so there I found myself: in the tiny bedroom of this 93-year-old Ethiopian composer-pianist-nun. 30pm”); by 11 he was sitting his Grade 8 exam. He's the voice of The Listening Service and frequently presents Radio 3's New Music Show, the BBC Proms, and documentaries. This is a book of discovery that speaks of music as a life force, that urges us to live our lives through music. ISBN: 9780571363223. I meet the dancer, choreographer and former artistic director of Scottish Ballet not at the dance company’s Southside HQ but across the river at the rehearsal studios of Scottish Opera, where he’s. Dove, one of Britain’s most compelling, accessible, prolific and socially engaged opera composers, is turning 60. 21 EDT. Thu 14 Jul 2016 10. Kate Molleson and Tom Service present exclusive recordings, new releases, composer interviews and features. This is the impassioned and exhilarating story of the composers who dared to challenge the conventional world of classical. Mascagni’s first opera was the mega hit Cavalleria Rusticana and he spent the rest of his life trying to live up to it. 36. 11hFirst published in The Herald in July, 2011. Kate Molleson tells. Kate Molleson. ‘Wonderful . ). The loose framework for the book was provided by a conversation with composer George E. Kate Molleson travels to Cairo to discover a lost aural music tradition of microtonal finesse, potently emotional voices and spectacularly skilful instrumentalists. 3, Sz. SOUND WITHIN SOUND. ”. Kate Molleson. Retaining the same timeslot on Saturday evenings, New Music Show will feature a regular new presenting line-up of Tom Service and Kate Molleson. Read 9 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. This entry was posted in Live Reviews on March 24, 2014 by Kate Molleson. THE dawn of a new era for the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, with fresh management on the way (yet to be appointed). . Much of Rimbaud’s work around the globe has to do with connection and loneliness, with memory and the suggestive power of sound, with how electronic music can summon and honour the forgotten. She presents BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show and Music Matters. Kate Molleson begins Sound within Sound: Opening Our Ears to the Twentieth Century with a loud call for change. 38. Elizabeth Alker is the host of Unclassified and presents weekend editions of Breakfast. We use. Kate Molleson is joined by a panel of guests and live musicians to begin Radio 3's International Women's Day celebrations. was socially prominent as well. She presents BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show and Music Matters. All photos courtesy UP Center for Ethnomusicology. Where multiple teeth were observed, the average age estimated from all available teeth was utilized. 31 EDT. 🧐 😀. ‘She raced a horse and trap around the city’. This entry was posted in Features on April 11, 2017 by Kate Molleson. £18. 2015 by Kate Molleson. Listen now. She presents BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show and Music Matters, and her articles have been published in the Guardian, New Statesman, Prospect, The Herald, BBC Music Magazine and elsewhere. The Bad Plus, Carter, Mahler. As a Kenyan in the world of composition, part of my musical journey has involved discovering other African classical composers that came before me and who have paved the way for the many others after…We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. CD review: Elias play Beethoven, vol 4. For ages 16+ Dates & times. Run times may vary by up to 20 minutes as they can be affected by last-minute programme changes, intervals and. First published in The Big Issue, 18-25 May, 2014. First published in The Herald on 26 March, 2014. He started playing piano at the age of seven and progressed dramatically fast. The World's Largest Island. Kate Molleson. , 2010) dentition. In a parallel universe, Diana Burrell is an architect. Review: East Neuk’s Schubertiad. 2019 by Kate Molleson. First published by Sounds Like Now, September 2017 edition. Learn more about Kate Molleson. First published in the Guardian on 4 June, 2015. I’m no great singer, but Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou only really trusted me after I had sung to her. Winners will be announced during a ceremony at Drygate in Glasgow. Classical music flourished, and yet when we reflect on the genre’s history its central figures seem to. Stephen Layton conducts a new recording with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge and star soloists including countertenor Iestyn Davies, tenor James Gilchrist and bass Matthew Brook. ”. 20:40 . Approximate run time: 1 hour 30 mins. The job is more collaborative, more sociable. 26 EST. 99. Tom “Waffles” Service continues to live down to his sobriquet and Kate Molleson appears to speak through a bowl of porridge. First published in The Big Issue, 23-30 March. Tom. Be ready to look up a lot of very interesting recordings. Violinist Rachel Podger, if you can pin her down, is a bright spark. F olk-music politics is a funny business. Kate Molleson chooses her favourite recording of Bartók's The Miraculous Mandarin. First published in The Herald on 12 February, 2014. First published in The Herald on 25 February, 2015. ”. 4y Report this post Report Report. Jun 24, 2018, 1:30 AM [ 5] Citation Link linkedin. He died in 2006 at the. Robin Ticciati conducts. Show. Age recommendation. First published in The Herald on 24 October, 2018. Innovators widening our musical horizons. Kate meets the Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir, whose big orchestral pieces feature layers of dense sound reflecting her inner world and nature as well - she's. It’s that time. Most musicians — not all, but most — no longer want that old-school authoritative figure of the Victorian portraits. Kate Molleson in conversation with cellist Abel Selaocoe and pianist Leif Ove Andsnes. August 18, 2022 11:37pm. At the age of seven, she became enthralled by a banjo-harp duo she saw busking at a market. Kate Molleson is a Radio 3 presenter and music journalist. £25 £21. ”. 45pm. There are big laughs at the end of the phone. The second contains Mahler’s Ninth Symphony; the first features one of Bernstein’s best works, his Second Symphony, ‘The Age of Anxiety’, based on W. 99. Listen live. I can’t stop playing the last movement of this recording. Kate Molleson Tuesday, April 19, 2022. Kate Molleson: 27 classical concerts not to miss. By Gavin Jacobson. 13 EDT. . Here are twenty of my favourite classical releases of 2017. Donald Macleod focuses on Franz Schubert at the age of 18. 45 EST Last modified on Tue 18 Apr 2017 11. First published in The Herald on 18 February, 2015. 15am on 1 September, Georgia Mann invited listeners “to tell us how you like to party”. Kate Molleson. More interesting than the simple numbers game is a prevailing acceptance of gendered aesthetics. In Cassandra. Kate Molleson begins Sound within Sound: Opening Our Ears to the Twentieth Century with a loud call for change. 'Wonderful . Kate Molleson, Sound within Sound: Opening Our Ears to the Twentieth Century. 17 EDT. “I write this book out of love and anger. According to the country’s state-run news outlet Fana Broadcasting Corporate, she died in. It’s standard etiquette to say that someone doesn’t look a. ‘She raced a horse and trap around the city’. Our Classical Century. Here’s a dismal statistic. He once noted, on a flight from New Zealand to the Philippines, that the particular recording of a Chopin. Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, pictured aged 23. She has been widely commissioned by international orchestras, ensembles and soloists, and has. . Facebook gives people the power to. Kate Molleson. BBC Radio 3’s exclusive radio broadcast of the pre-service and service ceremonies, culminating in King Charles III receiving the Honours of Scotland, is presented by Kate Molleson. Kate Molleson is a Radio 3 presenter and music journalist. Interview: Fred Frith. Review: Christophe Rousset. Imogen Holst: String chamber music Court Lane Music (NMC) Imogen Holst is in the blood of NMC records: in 1984 – the year she died – she set up the foundation that would end up kickstarting the label five years later. The following evening, she introduced a (ragged) performance of. This entry was posted in Live Reviews on October 27, 2014 by Kate Molleson. 2018 by Kate Molleson. Schedule. 30 EST. 44. She says she’s taking stock, trying out new things. 29 EDT Last modified on Thu 26 Mar 2020 08. Fri 8 Apr 2016 09. The 82-year-old French composer was a pioneer of electronic music in the 1950s and for. View Kate Molleson. She currently presents BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show and Music Matters. An alternative history of 20th-century composers—nearly all of them women or composers of color—by a leading international music critic Think of a composer right now. August 18, 2022 11:37pm Kate Molleson presents classical music on BBC Radio 3 Kate Molleson/Twitter Quotas should be introduced to broaden the range of. She has worked a multitude of positions in these fields, and has been able to build her experience globally while working in a large. She joined the BBC as a researcher for Radio 4 in 2005 and soon after became a reporter and. On air was “The Bee-Sting”, an unpublished song byStockhausen, who died in 2007, was arguably the last towering artist-legend in classical music, and he sent the tradition out in style. Show more. . First published in the Guardian on 14 August, 2015. A magnetic teacher with major institutional clout to play with – king heavyweight at the heaviest-weight new music school in post-war Europe. Understandable as English National Opera’s need is to cut costs, to cancel their first project outside London in 15 years is the wrong way to save money. Composer of the Week. In general, though, Mathieson says she feels “incredibly lucky to be living in an age when people are interested in perceived feminine qualities in leaders, whether men or women. The Blind Astronomer. Kate Molleson visits Greenland, the world’s largest island, to explore the role of traditional and new music for its communities today. The music critic and broadcaster Kate Molleson introduces us to ten 20th-century composers whose works are rarely included in the “canon” of classical music – because they are not white, male and Western. Having grown up. First published in the Guardian on 9 May, 2016. Kate Molleson Fri 9 May 2014 13. Kate Molleson presents classical music on BBC Radio 3 Kate Molleson/Twitter. Kate Molleson continues her summer series celebrating the talents of the current BBC Radio 3 New. Photograph: Kate Molleson. She first broadcast on Radio 3 as a panellist on the short. Kate Molleson is a music journalist who regularly presents BBC Radio 3 programmes including Breakfast, Music Matters and Afternoon Concert. Asked once whether she had any advice for. Music. Macleod has been the voice of Composer of the Week since 1999, introducing approximately 950 series, exploring the minds behind the music. Kate Molleson is a journalist and broadcaster, and one of the UK's leading commentators on contemporary classical music. Part one: November - December 2018 (1918-36) Part two: February - March 2019 (1936-53) Part three: April - May 2019 (1953-71) Part four: June - July. Imagine the most severe voices in folk music pitched against lush, boozy, crushingly tender instrumentals. Kate Molleson. 4. Kuniko (Linn) Whether architects like it or not, buildings will be scruffed up by the humans who use them,. One soul who will not hear the bugle’s call is Elizabeth Alker, who is being groomed as the new Kate Molleson — and if you think one Molleson is one too many, you stand in excellent company. Interview: Graham McKenzie on 40 years of Huddersfield. ” That’s how festival director Fiona Robertson sums up the difference between Sound and other contemporary music festivals. 12:00. Kate Molleson. Each week, Tom and Kate will showcase recordings. 44 minutes. | Tempo | Cambridge Core. Home. NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Mostly the discussion covered the standard debates — was Eliot a snob for using so many obscure references?"A radical new book by journalist, critic and BBC Radio 3 broadcaster Kate Molleson, which fundamentally changes the way we think about classical music and the musicians who made it on a global scale. It was composed in 1853 but deemed so weird at the time that it wasn’t performed until 1937 when it was hijacked for Nazi propaganda. Review: The Eighth Door / Bluebeard’s Castle. Listen now. What’s the appeal of improvised music? It’s an experience – call it free jazz, experimental classical, avant-rock or any number of other monikers – that many listeners find. Post navigationWe have found 78 people in the UK with the name Molleson. Next on. T here were bouquets and balloons for the Scottish Chamber Orchestra's 40th birthday; a packed house, a warm home crowd and a rare. A radical new book by journalist, critic and BBC Radio 3 broadcaster Kate Molleson, which fundamentally changes the way we think about classical music and the musicians who made it on a global scale.