In 2004, full of trepidation that it wasn’t going to be good enough, I submitted my first paid programme note job to the staff of Lakeside Arts, Nottingham. I was a Masters student at the university there, and they needed someone to write about some of the Bartók string quartets
On Saturday evening, I had the pleasure of returning to the city where I spent five happy years as a university student – Nottingham – to give a pre-concert talk about Brahms’s First Symphony. As the train rumbled north out of London, I spent a bit of time staring out
After all the excitement of last week’s guest post from Kevin Malone, it’s back to me for the first post of February… Earlier this week, I made a trip to Nottingham’s Royal Concert Hall to give a pre-concert talk for a performance of Brahms’s Fourth Symphony by Sinfonia Viva. Any
