David Nice
Bio
David writes, lectures and broadcasts on music. A former music critic for The Guardian and The Sunday Correspondent, he is a regular voice on BBC Radio 3. He has written short studies on Elgar, Richard Strauss, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky and the history of opera, and is currently working on the second volume of his Prokofiev biography for Yale University Press. He runs his own lecture series, Opera in Depth, at the Frontline Club in Paddington.
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Album: Black Lips - Sing In A World That’s Falling Apart
Since first getting together at the fag end of the Twentieth Century, Black Lips have largely played the role of garage rockers with a hint of...
The Welkin, National Theatre review - women's labour is...
History plays should perform a delicate balancing act: they have to tell us something worth knowing about the past, that foreign country where...
Scenes with Girls, Royal Court review - feminist separatism...
Last night, I discovered the gasp index. Or maybe just re-discovered. The what? The gasp index. It's when you see a show that keeps making you...
Miloš Karadaglić, Birmingham Town Hall review - flashy and f...
Dubbed “classical music’s guitar hero”, the 36-year-old London based Montenegrin...
Crazy Delicious, Channel 4 review - the most ridiculous cook...
The race continues to create the most ridiculous cooking programme...
Chris Packham: 7.7 Billion People and Counting, BBC Two revi...
We hear plenty of debate about climate change and its disastrous potential, but the ballooning growth of the world’s population may be the most...
Album: Ruby Turner – Love Was Here
One can only marvel at the versatility of Ruby Turner. As a vocalist, she spans the whole...
You Stupid Darkness!, Southwark Playhouse review - an intrig...
Armageddon would appear to be at the gates in Sam Steiner’s intriguing if ramshackle...
English National Ballet 70th Anniversary Gala, Coliseum revi...
Just when you thought Christmas was well and truly over, along comes another box of delights. And there isn’t a disappointment in it. If it were...
Bach Sunday with the Suzukis, RAM / Appl, AAM, Milton Court...
Not long after noon on Sunday, strange bells began ringing. In just 11 bars,...