Kondo's

Knussen includes two of Kondo's works in his latest concert with Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, one of them, Three Songs Tennyson Sung, the world premiere of a BCMG commission, with soprano Claire Booth as soloist.

This week's new live music 2011

His works only occasionally get performed in Britain, but one of Kondo's persistent champions here has been Oliver Knussen, who obviously relishes the jewelled mechanics and quirky, tangy dabs of instrumental colour in Kondo's quick-witted miniatures, which have been likened to the music of European composers like Donatoni.

This week's new live music 2011

SPECIAL: The fellow who was thinking of translating Kondo's story should contact Paul Barclay directly.

Archive 2009-01-01 Michael Turton 2009

SPECIAL: The fellow who was thinking of translating Kondo's story should contact Paul Barclay directly.

Daily Links, Jan 15, 2009 Michael Turton 2009

As markets crashed, Kondo's bosses demanded that he maintain his grueling pace -- only now, he wasn't giving money away -- he was calling loans in.

Stepping Out 2008

At the time, Sappo [or Sazo] Chitsukku, Kondo's wife's elder brother the man who, frightened by the pocketwatch, smashed it, and two or three Wushe braves had come over [to Kondō's place].

Archive 2008-11-01 Michael Turton 2008

You may remember Kondo's work in the first afterworks.

Archive 2006-01-01 MANDREWS 2006

You may remember Kondo's work in the first afterworks.

This is all you get!!! MANDREWS 2006

The literally playful jaunt serves as nostalgia fuel for those who wasted their afterschool hours terrorizing digital turtles, of course, but Leung's arrangement, straightforward though it may be, also underlines Kondo's wit and invention.

News 2011

The literally playful jaunt serves as nostalgia fuel for those who wasted their afterschool hours terrorizing digital turtles, of course, but Leung's arrangement, straightforward though it may be, also underlines Kondo's wit and invention.

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