Music New music comes in many shapes and sizes, although possibly fewer than it used to. Anybody who stayed for both Wednesday’s Proms will have had a crash course in how classical music has changed over the past 40 years, going from the zany experiments of the 1960s to today’s immaculate professionalism.
The early evening concert, given by the Philharmonia Orchestra, included the first UK performance of Peter Eötvös’s Seven. With his latest opera Love and Other Demons currently playing at Glyndebourne, Eötvös is the busy 21st-century composer par excellence – a highly skilled musician like Thomas Adès, who can write a work for traditional forces and make something new out of it.
