Category: Journal
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Two Moors Festival 2022 continues with a weekend of music on Exmoor
A weekend attending events at the friendliest classical music festival in the UK.
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5 reasons why Yuja Wang is a brilliant classical music artist
First time seeing The Wang play live. She didn’t disappoint.
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Blunders beset Cardiff Philharmonic Orchestra‘s change of programme
Amateur orchestra changes programme; the world implodes.
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Buying Schubert
Unexpected bereavement brings about odd behaviour. That’s not opinion. It’s fact. Evidence. Late Saturday afternoon, me and Simon are watching a three-part documentary on Hitlers last year (available via Disney+). The credits roll, I turn to see my 20 year old cat Faero lick at the bowl of water on his cushion in front of…
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Hope springs eternal
How melodic and harmonic language helps access a much-needed emotion in a moment of self-doubt at Norwich Cathedral.
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Play It Again
Why is something that played such an important part in my life so difficult to play now?
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MU calls for support for freelance musicians Omicron variant
Photo by Andrea De Santis on UPhoto by Denise Jans on Unsplash You know you’re in the zone when you get a press release from both the DCMS Committee and the Musicians Union during your last-chance pre-lockdown Christmas shopping trip. So it was this afternoon. As far as I can see both the committee AND…
