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‘Dark Fire’: Simon Holt and his Music
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 January 2016
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Just about the strongest, most honest and individual composing talent anywhere. It's music that gets one by the ears, by the throat, by the nerve-ends, and never leaves one the same after as before hearing it – all without obvious rhetoric, and with no attempt at stylistic hectoring, sledgehammering or attempting to take any sort of political, social, moral or even artistic stance. It's music which is complete of itself; it doesn't go out of its way to court or manipulate the listener – the listener is drawn in, if at all, by the music's own pure poetry. Especially his own is the duende quality, the dark fire, the quasi-demonic impishness that all his music has…
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