Gavin Dixon
Bio
Gavin Dixon is a writer, journalist and editor based in Hertfordshire, UK. He has a PhD on the symphonies of Alfred Schnittke and is a member of the editorial team for the Alfred Schnittke Collected Works Edition, currently being published in St Petersburg. Gavin is also a Curator of Musical Instruments at the Horniman Museum in London and Music Editor of Fanfare Magazine.
Articles By Gavin Dixon
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Paul Weller, Barrowland, Glasgow review - Modfather holding...
There was a brief lapse in this lengthy set when Paul Weller stood up from the piano, walked towards centre stage and then pivoted back the way he...
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn review - viral venom in Bucha...
Though sexual hypocrisy in modern-day Romania is the ostensible target of Bad Lack Banging or Loony Porn – a...
theartsdesk on Vinyl 67: Squid, The Beatles, Beach Riot, Bla...
The first of two December round-ups from theartsdesk on Vinyl runs the gamut from folk-tronic oddness to...
Album: Deep Throat Choir - In Order To Know You
Although it’s indirect, the overall feel of In Order To Know You points to where...
Final Account review - documentary confronting the last surv...
Do we need another documentary about Nazi Germany? Yes when it is as cogent and subtle as Luke Holland’s Final Account. Made over eight...
Stephen Sondheim in memoriam - he gave us more to see
It seemed impossible and yet, the other evening, while idly flicking through emails, I learned the unimaginable:...
Tchetuev, LPO, Larsen-Maguire, Congress Theatre, Eastbourne...
Even with a chill wind blowing from the Sussex Downs, this copper-bottomed Overture-Concerto-Symphony Sunday matinée was guaranteed...
Peter Robison: Flying Blind review – a story of decline and...
Thomas Pynchon’s saturnine '70s novel Gravity’s Rainbow (1973) begins with “[a] screaming [that] comes across the sky. It has happened...
Blu-ray: Out of the Blue
In an era when toxic masculinity has become a clichéd accusation to throw at any portrait of men behaving macho, it’s fascinating to revisit...
Imogen Cooper, Wigmore Hall review - calm waters run deep
On a night when any brooks running past the Wigmore...