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Nov 30, 20231 min read

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...

Nov 21, 20231 min read

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...

Jun 2, 20228 min read

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...

May 8, 20223 min read

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.

Apr 21, 20222 min read

Finding Adonis

A trip to A favourite London bookshop unearths one of the great poets I’d never heard of.

Apr 1, 20222 min read

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....

May 27, 20215 min read

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...

Apr 23, 20214 min read

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