Yesterday, I had the very great pleasure of giving a lecture at the Marryat Players Chamber Festival in Wimbledon. Over the course of the weekend, professional musicians and students from the Yehudi Menuhin school are performing side by side in repertoire by Haydn, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Korngold, Enescu, Elgar, Shostakovich and
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
Let’s hear it for the audience. For all those people who, in pursuit of the magical experience that is hearing music live, will cough up sometimes sizeable ticket fees, book babysitters, dash from work and wolf down a sandwich on the train, battle with difficult parking or stump across grassy
