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Oddballs and outcasts in the ballroom with the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin

By Sam Johnstone, 11 October 2016
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Reviewed at Heimathafen Neukölln, Berlin on 9 October 2016
Programme
Gubaidulina, Fünf Etüden, Op.1
Scelsi, Okanogan
Dutilleux, Sonata for Oboe and Piano
Dutilleux, Les Citations
Piazzolla, Tangos
Performers
Thomas Hecker, Oboe
Elsie Bedleem, Harp
Ander Perrino Cabello, Double Bass
Henrik Magnus Schmidt, Drums
Anna Kirichenko, Piano
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Sam Johnstone
Sam Johnstone
Sam Johnstone is a musician and writer based in Berlin. He has written on classical, contemporary and world music for Sinfini Music, The Cusp and World Music Network, and about the influence of the avant-garde on contemporary music in Germany and Japan whilst studying at Oxford University and SOAS, University of London. Sam blogs at www.spljohnstone.com and tweets at @spljohnstone