It’s been a while. Missed me? I’ve missed me – or rather, I’ve missed the me that hasn’t been dragged down by a seemingly never-ending cold virus which showed up just before my holiday (of course it did) and then hung around for weeks making me feel like a sort
When I was a student at Nottingham University, back in the dim and distant past, I was invited to join a group of friends at a performance of Opera North’s Der Rosenkavalier in town. I’d never seen the show before, and as far as I knew, I didn’t really know
For as long as I can remember being aware of lectures, I have been familiar also with that strange, half-camel, half-unicorn known as the ‘lecture recital.’ It’s a funny old thing. In principle, it should be the most straightforward pairing in the world: you want to play or sing some
Now look, I know this is supposed to be a blog about music and research and education, but today I’m going to write about Ghostbusters. And also research and education, as it happens. Still, don’t say I didn’t warn you. On Friday night, I went off to the cinema to
Happy 4th July, one and all! And to the staff and students at the Royal College of Music, where I have studied and worked for the last eight years, congratulations on reaching the end of another great adventure of an academic year. It’s been exhausting, exciting, challenging, fulfilling, and packed
This week, I was looking forward to picking from a host of possible topics for discussion. I had lovely suggestions from the folk at Opera Talk, pressing issues from papers and discussion boards, and a range of subjects in my ever-expanding ‘list of things to blog about’. But instead, I
