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David Grundy

David Grundy is a poet and scholar based in London. He is the author of A Black Arts Poetry Machine: Amiri Baraka and the Umbra Poets (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019) and coeditor, with Lauri Scheyer, of Selected Poems of Calvin C. Hernton (Wesleyan University Press, 2023).

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Manfred Gurlitt (1890–1972) © NHK | Public domain

The forgotten German composer who pioneered opera in Japan: Manfred Gurlitt

By David Grundy, 29 May 2026

A leading composer and conductor of opera in Germany, Manfred Gurlitt’s Jewish ancestry led to his music being banned. Emigrating to Japan, he became a pioneer of opera and Western classical music in Japan, a legacy still felt today.

29 May 2026

The forgotten German composer who pioneered opera in Japan

By David Grundy

Berlin

Music against Death: Joana Mallwitz conducts Nono and Mahler in Berlin

By David Grundy, 14 September 2024

Joana Mallwitz pairs rare Luigi Nono with Mahler's Fourth Symphony at the Konzerthausorchester's Musikfest Berlin programme.

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Berlin

14 Sep 2024

Music against Death: Joana Mallwitz conducts Nono and Mahler in Berlin

By David Grundy

Berlin

Passion and precision: Aimard plays Schoenberg and Ives in Berlin

By David Grundy, 02 September 2024

Revolutionary music, a century on: Pierre-Laurent Aimard excels in Schoenberg and Ives.

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Berlin

02 Sep 2024

Passion and precision: Aimard plays Schoenberg and Ives

By David Grundy

Kaija Saariaho (1952–2023) © Priska Ketterer

Violence, trauma and polyphony: Saariaho’s Innocence comes to Amsterdam

By David Grundy, 07 September 2023

Dramatising the aftermath of a mass shooting in Finland, Innocence explores violence, trauma and collective responsibility. Co-librettist Aleksi Barrière speaks about one of Kaija Saariaho’s last major works.

07 Sep 2023

Trauma and polyphony: Saariaho’s Innocence comes to Amsterdam

By David Grundy

Krzysztof Penderecki (1933–2020) © Mirosław Pietruszyński

The weight of memory: the music of Krzysztof Penderecki

By David Grundy, 28 July 2023

With an output ranging from dense sound clusters to romantic oratorios, Penderecki’s music is remarkably diverse – and throughout is redolent with the trauma and memory of the 20th century.

28 Jul 2023

The weight of memory: the music of Krzysztof Penderecki

By David Grundy

Music boxes, walkie-talkies and the plantation machine: Hannah Kendall

By David Grundy, 06 March 2023

Inspired by grime, Jean Michel Basquiat, and the legacies of colonialism, composer Hannah Kendall talks about how music is always about more than just music.

06 Mar 2023

Music boxes, walkie-talkies and the plantation machine: Hannah Kendall

By David Grundy

“It should belong to all of us”: Detlev Glanert’s Prague Symphony

By David Grundy, 16 November 2022

The German composer discusses the long awaited world premiere of his new work Prague Symphony with the Czech Philharmonic, which sets fragments of Franz Kafka for two singers and orchestra.

16 Nov 2022

“It should belong to all of us”: Detlev Glanert’s Prague Symphony

By David Grundy