Category: Music

A Night at the Opera

“The book which the reader has before him at this moment is, from one end to the other, in its entirety and details … a progress from evil to good, from injustice to justice, from falsehood to truth, from night to day, from appetite to conscience, from corruption to life; from bestiality to duty, from… Continue reading A Night at the Opera

I Did It Steinway

At the end of last month I missed one of the best proms this year: Yunchan Lim playing Beethoven, Bruckner and Tüür.

A Little Night Music

Yesterday evening I sat under a London plane in Kensington Gardens near the Albert Memorial for a picnic.

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The Elphi

I went to visit sugar and oil traders in Hamburg a few times over the years, unfortunately before the Elphi opened in 2017.

The White Stuff

I’m going to shut my eyes and you are going to write down your three favourite musicals.

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Paul Who?

A 20th century author (1897 –  1976) who wrote more than forty books, lots adapted for film, TV and the wireless, had four wives, two children and he has never been mentioned in almost 2,600 posts – incroyable!