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Disrupted Times
Disappointing Chinese data fuels talk of economic stimulus
...Need to know: business The FT revealed that Google and Universal Music are in talks to license artists’ melodies and voices for songs generated by artificial intelligence....
August 9, 2023
ReviewMusic
Glyndebourne’s Poulenc double bill contrasts ideas of womanhood — review
...Robin Ticciati, conducting, finely contrasts the two: La Voix becomes a post-Debussy study in changing harmony and fragmented melody, while Les Mamelles, briefly Stravinskian at first, is all brio and buffo...
August 11, 2022
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
ReviewMusic
Charli XCX, Crash tour review — electro-tinged bangers with deliciously chaotic energy
...From the booming melody and undulating choreography of opening number “Lightning”, there was no doubting her assurance; she sounded powerfully sweet and looked splendid — like a kick-ass Russ Meyer movie...
May 23, 2022
ReviewAlbums
Big Red Machine’s How Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last? is deftly crafted
...There’s a genuine rapport to the collaborations throughout, from the unmistakably wispy folksiness of Fleet Foxes vocalist Robin Pecknold on “Phoenix”, to the A-list presence of Taylor Swift on “Renegade...
August 27, 2021
Pet therapy – why animals have become our mental-health heroes
Strictly for the birds: how we can help them thrive in our gardens
...Because they no longer had to compete with the traffic noise, the birds sang lower, softer melodies....
January 9, 2021
UK prime property
Prime home sales rise in London’s Wandsworth
...Since lockdown, though, buyers have also been coming from further afield, says Robin Chatwin, head of south-west London at Savills....
October 16, 2020
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
Ludovic Hunter-Tilney
Katy Perry and fellow songwriters have new tune on plagiarism
...Its makers, Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams, were judged to have copied the feel or groove of a song by Marvin Gaye (him again) — a looser definition of plagiarism....
March 25, 2020
ReviewMusic
London Jazz Festival serves up a musical spread led by Herbie Hancock and Corinne Bailey Rae
...Carrington’s music balances dense harmonies with cross-pollinated beats and supports oblique melodies with bass lines that rarely resolve....
November 18, 2019
ReviewAlbums
Maria Farantouri and Cihan Türkoğlu: Beyond The Borders — music at the crossroads
...Türkoğlu, in a low baritone, sings the story of Hassan, a Macedonian analogue of Robin Hood....
July 12, 2019
FT Magazine
Portrait of a rose: photographs from Nick Knight’s garden
...If I move my phone a fraction of a pixel up or down, it won’t be right, it won’t be harmonious; I won’t get the right melody playing from the petals....
June 7, 2019
John Gapper
Katy Perry’s music is greater than the sum of its parts
...its feel (although differing in melody, harmony and rhythm) from Marvin Gaye’s 1977 “Got To Give it Up”....
August 7, 2019
ReviewLife & Arts
The Hunting Gun, Bregenz Festival, Austria — explosive intensity
...“Our daily life was built on secrets,” declares his wife, Midori, her flat melody echoed by tuned percussion, cimbalom and strings....
August 20, 2018
ReviewLife & Arts
Norma Waterson and Eliza Carthy with the Gift Band: Anchor — ‘ghosts of Weimar’
...Now she has recovered enough to record this follow-up at the Fisherhead Congregational Church in her hometown of Robin Hood’s Bay in North Yorkshire....
May 25, 2018
FT Magazine
How a volatility virus infected Wall Street
...Ruing the mishap, he enlisted his friend Zubair Latib — a fellow day-trading musician who had cashed out his $6,000 from XIV just four days before its implosion — and wrote a lament, set to the melody of...
April 12, 2018
ReviewLife & Arts
L’enfance du Christ, Philharmonie Berlin — moving but also clumsy
...The young conductor creates crisp climaxes while leaving space for sensuous melodies to unfold, breathing together with chorus and soloists....
December 19, 2017
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
ReviewLife & Arts
Fleet Foxes: Crack-Up — ‘elliptical and gnomic’
...Crack-Up, its title presumably paying homage to F Scott Fitzgerald’s late-life memoir of alcohol and depression, is a dense listen, with few of the earworm melodies of “Mykonos” or “White Winter Hymnal”....
June 16, 2017
ReviewLife & Arts
Lucian Ban & Mat Maneri, Vortex Jazz Club, London — stirring emotions, luxurious textures
...Maneri, here playing amplified viola, complements this approach with sweeping lines and plangent melodies, richly voiced chords and subtle plunks....
May 10, 2017
Robin Lane Fox
Hunt for wild flowers in the mountains and meadows of Kyrgyzstan
...His star turn is a melody composed for a messenger who has to report that a hunted boar has killed his ruler’s son....
August 11, 2016
Life & Arts
Forgotten blues women, unforgettable voices
...Another forgotten star is Geeshie Wiley, who saunters through “Pick Poor Robin Clean”, telling her duet partner Elvie Thomas about men, money and moving on....
July 22, 2016
The Life of a Song
The Life of a Song: ‘Song to the Siren’
...This Mortal Coil’s musicians included guitarist Robin Guthrie and singer Elizabeth Fraser of Cocteau Twins, and it was they who recorded “Song to the Siren”....
April 22, 2016
ReviewLife & Arts
Zhenya Strigalev’s Never!, Vortex Jazz Club, London — ‘Punchy, gripping’
...Fragments of melody chirrup gleefully down a well-worn path before ending abruptly; strident scales end in flurries of notes and long-sustained high notes ride over jaunty dance-based rhythms....
December 16, 2015
Life & Arts
End of the Road festival, Wiltshire, UK — review
...For me, though, the comedy prize goes to Robin Ince, whose foam-flecked ravings were at times deliriously intoxicating....
September 8, 2015
ReviewLife & Arts
Philharmonia 70th anniversary, Royal Festival Hall, London — review
...Bassoonist Robin O’Neill must think so....
September 28, 2015
Opinion
The blurred line between rip-off and homage
...The verdict raises questions about the legality of songs that parody other songs or quote fragments of melodies and lyrics....
March 13, 2015
ReviewLife & Arts
The Dancing Master, Guildhall School of Music, London — review
...Malcolm Arnold, who won an Oscar for The Bridge on the River Kwai, had the knack of writing a good melody, though that did not endear him to serious-minded critics in the postwar years....
March 3, 2015

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