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Chris Searle talks to ELLIOTT SHARP about the impact of performing Concert in Dachau at a venue near the concentration camp
HITTING THE ZONE: Elliott Sharp
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ANGUS REID, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MARIA DUARTE review On The Sea, A Useful Ghost, Brunello: The Gracious Visionary, and Pinocchio Unstrung
RON JACOBS enjoys a great tale, told by a US communist, of the lives of working-class New Yorkers
BRENT CUTLER searches a new history of contemporary Iran for an understanding of the Islamic Republic, finding both interesting detail and glaring omissions
MARIA DUARTE recommends the true story of the remarkable woman who sued Donald Trump for sexual assault not once, but twice
KENNY MacASKILL is disappointed by a polemical, rather than factual, account of the Lone Star State and its political path since the civil war
PAUL DONOVAN is fascinated by the lives of Charles and Mary Bagot, and the insight this biography shines on the morals of pre-Victorian society
BORN in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1951, Elliott Sharp has some 85 recordings to his name over the past four decades, from contemporary classical and orchestral music to avant-garde and from opera to experimental jazz, noise, no-wave and electronic music.
An inveterate performer, playing mainly guitar, saxophone and bass clarinet, he has led many ensembles over the years, including the blues-oriented Terraplane and Orchestra Carbon.
Sharp grew up in a musical family, with both his parents playing piano, and he started on the instrument at the age of at six, playing his first recital of Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 at New York's Carnegie Hall when he a mere eight years of age.
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