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Caroline Potter

Caroline Potter (she/her) is an award-winning writer and academic specializing in French music, based in London.
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Héloïse Werner performs The Other Side of the Sea--Photo by Emma Werner

Héloïse Werner and The Hermes Experiment at Kings Place, London

On 25 April I went to see an excellent young quartet at Kings Place in London. Bored already? I’m bo...
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Caroline Potter
Sarah Angliss--Photo by Agata Urbaniak

Uncanny resonances: Sarah Angliss at Kings Place, London

The word ‘unique’ is used on the flimsiest of pretexts to describe an artist, but for Sarah Angliss...
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Caroline Potter
Spitalfields Festival Ringside Symphony

Spitalfields Festival, London: “Ringside Symphony”

‘Is the pool open tonight as normal?’ It’s not a question you expect to hear on entering a concert v...
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Caroline Potter
Kenneth Hesketh

5 Questions to Kenneth Hesketh (composer) on his 50th Birthday

Born in Liverpool in 1968, Kenneth Hesketh’s first orchestral work was premiered by the Royal Liverp...
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Caroline Potter
i the opera

‘i’ the opera, ‘a love story’: Humans and a Neural Network in Collaboration

Is artificial intelligence taking over? James Oldham and Klara Kofen are billed as co-creators of ‘i...
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Caroline Potter
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Morphs and Magpies: Ligeti Quartet at London’s Steiner Recital Hall

To paraphrase Stravinsky, great composers don’t borrow, they steal. “Morphs and Magpies”...
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Caroline Potter
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I, Object: Opera Double Bill at London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts

“Opera can be a useful provocation for conversations about mental ‘otherness,'” sa...
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Caroline Potter
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Christine Ott and the Ondes Martenot at London’s IKLECTIK Art Lab

“As long as I gaze on Waterloo sunset, I am in paradise.” Ray Davies of the Kinks’ lyric...
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Caroline Potter
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