Culture: Project Starting to Look Threadbare ; Cbso & Ex Cathedra Symphony Hall

Birmingham Post › June 26, 2006

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Artistic Birmingham's dogged determination to expose over four years every note Stravinsky ever wrote is teetering very close to the Emperor's New Clothes effect.

For all the wonderful commitment in performance brought by Ex Cathedra and a scaled-down CBSO under Jeffrey Skidmore on Thursday, seeds of impatience were sown for a composer whose output so often sounds similar to itself.

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Culture: Project Starting to Look Threadbare ; Cbso & Ex Cathedra Symphony Hall

So many fingerprints remain the same throughout the three or four main per...

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