Ian Pace

Ian Pace is a pianist and musicologist, and Professor of Music, Culture and Society and University Advisor – Interdisciplinarity at City, University of London but writes here in a personal capacity

Proposed changes could exacerbate threats to the free pursuit of knowledge

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Closures at Oxford Brookes are a sad reflection on the state of the academic music sector

Artillery Row

Communist composers tried to create ideologically pure works for the workers — but without any great degree of success

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Naive proposals to “decolonise” Western classical music risk losing the richness of its history

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