Hugh Morris

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Writer, Culture Journalist and Critic, Freelance
Journalist, VAN Magazine

Durham, London, Manchester

Arts and Entertainment, Opinion and Editorial, United Kingdom

As seen in: VAN Magazine, MSN UK, The New York Times, Business Insider, Financial Times, The Guardian, The Independent (UK), The Telegraph, Yahoo Canada, Yahoo News UK, Yahoo Singapore and

Covers: Music, Culture, Politics

@vanmusicmag editor and writer elsewhere. Loves a typo / views: model's own. hugh@van-verlag.com

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Finishing Bach's Organ Music, With Help From 118 Composers

A new project completes Bach's plans for his kaleidoscopic "Orgelbüchlein," with a 21st-century touch. Send a…

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Abel Selaocoe Finds a Home in Improvisation

The classically trained South African cellist draws on musical traditions from across the globe for his debut…

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Fergus McCreadie interview: "Jazz is kind of a folk music in itself"

The first time Fergus McCreadie made the jazz world sit up and take note was in 2018. Watching back footage o…

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Shida Shahabi on finding the right space to compose, field recordings & sampling

When Shida Shahabi eventually realized that all she really wanted to do was write her own music, her aim was …

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William Herschel Is Famous for Science. What About His Music?

The accomplished astronomer was, one historian said, "the Einstein of his time." But before he surveyed the s…

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'Pistol' Tells Steve Jones's Story. With a Touch of Showbiz.

A new limited series is based on a memoir by the Sex Pistols guitarist. Just don't confuse it with a document…

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Stories through music: Manchester Camerata Hidden Histories

Manchester Camerata and Lavender Rodriguez have been collaborating with school students on a project focused …

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RLPO/Hindoyan review - shock but not enough awe in Bluebeard concert staging

ne of Domingo Hindoyan 's stated ambitions when he took on the chief conductorship of the Liverpool Philharmo…

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Music for the Dark at an Experimental Festival

British fans gathered to enjoy an overnight program of alternative classical music - a loose, soothing genre …

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Melissa Aldana: "It's about asking: 'who am I, as a female from South America?'"

Melissa Aldana begins by offering me a tour of her flat, a Through The Keyhole moment for the Zoom generation…

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How mundane gossip took over the internet

But why does gossiping feel so good? In the introduction to podcast Normal Gossip - in which host Kelsey McKi…

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How mundane gossip took over the internet

But why does gossiping feel so good? In the introduction to podcast Normal Gossip - in which host Kelsey McKi…

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Emma Rawicz: compose me a rainbow

The ability to 'see music in colour' or 'see colour in sound' has a long history among performers and compose…

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BBCPhil/Wigglesworth review - Vaughan Williams celebrations open with style but not enough substa...

This year marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. Manchester fea…

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The Meticulous Curation of Another Timbre

LABEL PROFILE The Meticulous Curation of Another Timbre By Hugh Morris · February 25, 2022 In a suburb to the…

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With a click of a baton: ConductIT online conducting course

More and more music teachers find themselves conducting orchestras, choirs, bands and ensembles as part of th…

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The Pitch of Living

"I've been interested in the 432 Hz conspiracy theories for a while," began an email from my editor at VAN. "…

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Melissa Aldana 12 Stars

It’s a brave move indeed to make a label debut as introspective as Aldana does here, but equally remarkable i…

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Barney McAll Precious Energy

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'I'm a crazy fanatic of the music'

By Joshi Herrmann and Hugh Morris I meet Liverpool's new South American star in a functional boardroom in the…

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Marshall Allen, At 97, Broadens the Arkestra's Cosmos

Marshall Allen, At 97, Broadens the Arkestra's Cosmos By Hugh Morris · February 10, 2022 The light is orange,…

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For a Composer at 90, There's Nothing but Time

For decades, Éliane Radigue has created a great deal of slow, very minimal, mostly electronic music. Éliane R…

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Sax star Immanuel Wilkins: 'Hands are a symbol of praise - but they are also lifted up at police'

mmanuel Wilkins appears on a video call from his flat in Brooklyn, looking intently at the laptop perched on …

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Is Manchester's 'Acid House Smash Hits' coming back to life?

Dear members - today's story is by longtime Mill contributor Hugh Morris, who has written about music and cul…

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