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  Cyrano review – Peter Dinklage sings through patchy musical update

  Blake Jenner and Peter Dinklage in Cyrano. Photograph: Monique CarboniBefore Peter Dinklage spent eight years in a leather doublet on Game of Thrones, he was a New York theater actor with an aggressive, maximalist, almost clownish style that still allowed for pathos. Which is to say he is perfectly cast in an imperfect Cyrano at the New Group, adapted by his wife, the director Erica Schmidt, with lyrics by Carin Besser and Matt Berninger and music by Aaron Dessner and Bryce Dessner of the Nation

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  Five tracks to hear this week (June 7-13)

  Bon Iver is generally known as a one-man band, but Justin Vernon has a huge cast list on the two new songs he released just after his headline slot at the All Points East festival. U (Man Like) and Hey, Ma include contributions from Bruce Hornsby, Bryce Dessner of The National and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus.

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  Thom Yorke to debut new classical music composition at the Barbican: How to get tickets

  Thom Yorke is set to debut a classical music composition in the UK for the first time. The Radiohead frontman will be a special guest of classical collective Minimalist Dream House at the Barbican on April 9. The first half of the show will see the collective perform works by Caroline Shaw, David Lang, Timo Andres, Dessner and Chalmin, as well as a 2002 piece from Max Richter.

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  'There's a danger of falling in love with your own shadow': Bryce Dessner on The National's unexpected success

  “As a band gets more successful, there’s a danger of falling in love with your own shadow,” admits guitarist Bryce Dessner. In 2007, around the release of their breakthrough album Boxer, you could have got reasonably long odds on The National – a brilliant but unapologetically cerebral and arty indie-rock outfit – packing out stadiums and playing second billing on Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage a decade on.

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  Ragnar Kjartansson on making a ballet, his hit show at the Barbican and why he loves rococo

  Ragnar Kjartansson is a true polymath. He’s a film-maker, a performance artist, a painter, a musician and songwriter, as his spectacular show at the Barbican last summer demonstrated. He’s the ultimate artist for what’s been called our “post-medium” age, as the boundaries between the different arts dissolve.

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  Sufjan Stevens, Nico Muhly, Bryce Dessner & James McAlister - Planetarium review: ‘When it coheres it’s quite a trip’

  Stevens’s voice contemplates man’s place in the grand scheme of the Kuiper Belt, Neptune, Black Energy, etc, amid Muhly’s signature shimmers, Dessner’s cascading guitars and McAlister’s quicksilver percussion.

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  Album reviews: Katy Perry - Witness, London Grammar - Truth Is A Beautiful Thing, and more

  Although Sufjan Stevens’ central role as lyricist and singer makes it seem more like one of his albums, Planetarium originated in a Dutch concert hall’s commission of a new piece from composer Nico Muhly, for which the classical wunderkind swiftly drafted in his Brooklyn chums, including Stevens, The National guitarist Bryce Dessner and Stevens’ beatmaster James McAlister. Debuted live in 2012, the project has since whirled back and forth in cyberspace between the participants, being progressiv

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