Essay
“New experts in a new world”: at an incubator for Afrodiasporic new music
November 2024

David Grundy attends a week long event in Berlin designed to forward a global avant garde of Black music composers
David Grundy attends a week long event in Berlin designed to forward a global avant garde of Black music composers
As vocalist Elaine Mitchener prepares to perform Peter Maxwell Davies’s explosive 1969 monodrama at London’s Wigmore Hall, David Grundy details past renditions and speaks with Mitchener about new intersectional perspectives on the piece
David Grundy pays tribute to the late saxophonist whose uncontainable experimental artistry expanded the realm of mainstream music into the outer limits