Contemporary composer – Gerald Barry
- Wednesday, March 11, 2015
The angular, brazen and fiercely individual music of this true Irishman undergoes colourful analysis by Paul Griffiths
The angular, brazen and fiercely individual music of this true Irishman undergoes colourful analysis by Paul Griffiths
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