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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...

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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...

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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.

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Mar 31, 20221 min read

River

Just watched mesmerising film by Jennifer Peedom, simply entitled River. in the tradition of Koyaanasqatsi and Baraka it is mostly images...

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Mar 18, 20222 min read

Be Here Now - at night, alone, with earphones.

Sometimes when Daniel goes away, it's a chance for me to do nothing very much. When he's here we hang out or I have to carve time to do...

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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

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