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Music for Well-Being
I got this interesting link from Reasons to be Cheerful (David Byrne's excellent website). How do concert spaces make themselves more...
Alistair Appleton
Nov 30, 20231 min read
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To Paradise (Tom Adès' Dante)
I have been listening to the last movement of Tom Adès' ballet score Dante which was released on disc this Summer by the LA Philharmonic...
Alistair Appleton
Nov 21, 20231 min read
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Two reasons why “This Is Us” might be the greatest piece of art of the 21st Century
Daniel and I sit down, rather solemnly. Me with a bowl of ice cream. He with a nice glass of wine. We want this to be a good and...
Alistair Appleton
Jun 2, 20228 min read
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Letting the Holy Spirit in my Earphones
Alistair takes time to listen to James Macmillan's dazzling 5th Symphony, Le Grand Inconnu, and feels the Holy Spirit fluttering.
Alistair Appleton
May 8, 20223 min read
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Finding Adonis
A trip to A favourite London bookshop unearths one of the great poets I’d never heard of.
Alistair Appleton
Apr 21, 20222 min read
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Virginia Woolf: I finally get to the Lighthouse
I must have started and re-started To the Lighthouse three or four times in my life. I’ve always thought that I should love this book....
Alistair Appleton
Apr 1, 20222 min read
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On reading James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’
This is another blog fished out of the annals. I probably wrote it about 10 years ago. I have subsequently read Joyce’s magnum opus for...
Alistair Appleton
May 27, 20215 min read
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The Supersumptuous
That voice is all wrong, really. It’s not formal, it’s not ‘correct’ but it gushes and it’s unstoppable. It IS supersumptous. And that’s wh
Alistair Appleton
Apr 23, 20214 min read
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