A few years ago, a new colleague joined the place where I was working. We got on extremely well, found that we had much to talk about, and would often visit each other’s homes for dinner after work. Because we both loved music, we started talking about the kinds of
In the last few weeks, I seem to have spent a lot of my time thinking about Beethoven. In addition to a lovely session of Music Talks in South Kensington, where I had a live quartet on stage to help me explain the inner workings of the A minor String
Earlier this week, I came across a post by a performer-musicologist friend of mine who was having a ‘what’s it all for?’ moment. ‘Do we really need historical musicology?’ he asked his Facebook friends. ‘Suppose it all just stopped right now, and we just made do with what we know,
Have you noticed that almost everything we now refer to as ‘3D’ actually… isn’t? Clever phone screens, high-tech films and silly glasses, the latest computer games where you fling yourself around your living room to be projected into the action – they’re all terribly clever of course, but they’re not
