The Ivor Novello Awards were held at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London last week.
Harrison Birtwistle, the 71 year old British modernist composer, was there to collect the 2006 Classical Music Award.
He listened to Damon Albarn, KT Tunstall, New Order, the Kaiser Chiefs, the Arctic Monkeys, the Bee Gees and James Blunt (Bee Gee Barry [...]






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