I'll think of something later

An impressionistic outlet for some of those thoughts, musical and otherwise, I don't have a chance to air in the media

Tuesday, 18 August 2009

How to prove Bolero a masterpiece

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Put it in the second half of a Proms programme with the other, refined extreme of Ravel’s art, the complete Ma mere l’oye ( Mother Goose ...
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Monday, 17 August 2009

Hyperaesthesia

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The idea, unannounced here because broadcasting your absence on the web is ill-advised, had been to give music a bit of a rest for a fort...
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Saturday, 1 August 2009

Zelig month

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July was my month in the sun with the stars, interposing myself in the manner of Woody Allen’s holy fool alongside the likes of Benny and ...
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Wednesday, 29 July 2009

Launching the Proms Stravinsky

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Performances of Stravinsky's complete Firebird (Karsavina and Bolm pictured above) and Petrushka (the composer featured with Nijins...
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Tuesday, 28 July 2009

Urban Jerusalem

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For all his rural roots, Johnny ‘Rooster’ Byron (see below) would be tickled pink, and no doubt painted green, by the Peoples ( sic ) Repu...
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Thursday, 23 July 2009

Green and pleasant land?

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That, without the question mark, was how some unwitting PR person advertised a Royal Philharmonic concert last season ending with the big ...
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