English Country-Tunes

I was there!

I attended Michael Finnissy's performance of his famous piano work "English Country-Tunes" yesterday. The floor shook (and it was a big room) and everyone cheered.

It was the friendliest event I have been to at The Warehouse (home of contemporary music concerts that cost £900 to put on).

This was the last performance of the Finnissy Weekend, organised by the British Music Information Centre and directed by Matthew Shlomowitz and Laurence Crane.

I again noticed that live music is more striking than recorded sound. So let's have more concerts, please.

I also noted that English Country-Tunes, which, being music, cannot be described adequately in words, is what you get when a country has had no creativity for 300 years and then has to make up the balance!