This week’s Spotify Sunday playlist has been selected by David Allen Green who is head of the media practice at Preiskel & Co. and legal correspondent for The New Statesman. Last year he was named as one of the leading innovators in technology and journalism by Journalism.co.uk and shortlisted for the George Orwell prize for blogging. You can follow him on Twitter HERE and find him on Facebook HERE.
I have never written about music before, and I hardly have the detailed knowledge to show off that other contributors to this series appear to have. But here
goes: some of my choice Spotify tracks, and what I have to say about each of them.
Clarinet Concerto – Aaron Copland / Pruit Igoe – Philip Glass
I fear I am one of those described by Thomas Beecham as not understanding classical music but liking the sound it makes. I am quite happy to live with that sneer: classical music should not be the
preserve of the erudite or the pretentious.
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