Philip Clark

10 January 2026 To accompany an exhibition of paintings by Philip Guston at the Royal Academy of Arts in London in 2004, a performance was arranged of Morton Feldman’s composition written in homage to Guston, for which I was persuaded to page-turn. For Ph... See more

String Creatures by Liza Lim (NMC Recordings) Australian composer Liza Lim, now resident in the UK, is string-obsessed, viewing string and rope as materials that have bound societies together throughout history: we weave tangled webs, we tie ourselves up ... See more

Issued earlier this year digitally by Virgin Music Group, a physical edition of the compilation LP Is This What We Want? was released this week. The album is a howl of protest from musicians across the stylistic spectrum—rock, pop, classical, jazz, hip-ho... See more

Two episodes into the new Alan Partridge series, How Are You? It’s Alan—the last episode of which airs on BBC One tomorrow, though all episodes are already on iPlayer—came the opportunity to stress-test my pet theory that virtually all middle-aged, male B... See more

My interview with Jack DeJohnette didn’t start well. It was the summer of 2000 and DeJohnette was in London to play with Keith Jarrett’s Standards Trio. Referring to him in my first question as a “drummer” felt reasonable enough, but DeJohnette didn’t app... See more