Tag: Classical Connections
Classical Connections: Animal Crackers
A long time ago, when the world seemed a different place and I was very young, my parents used to occasionally give me a...
Classical Connections: The Sound of Silence
The other night, having nothing much to do, I was looking through the orchestral score of Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony – his last one. He...
Classical Connections: A class apart
Browsing through some music videos the other day, I came across a performance by a violinist of about six years old who was described...
Classical Connections: Great Danes
If you are over a certain age, you may recall a recording that was released in the 1950s and remained popular for many years...
Classical Connections: Boys Don’t Cry?
If you’re over a certain age, you may recall a popular French song entitled Les Trois Cloches, made famous by Edith Piaf and Les...
Classical Connections: Intimate voices
There was a time when music was much quieter than it is today. Before the eleventh century most music consisted of a single unaccompanied...
Classical Connections: Motorola magic
A good many years ago when I was living back in The Cold Country, I decided to buy a new car radio. I chose...
Classical Connections: One hit wonders
The other day I was reminded about the old joke about a Yorkshire band-master who asks one of the young brass players, “Aye lad,...
Classical Connections: The other Bachs
One of the most common words in the Welsh language is “bach”. It means “small” and it’s sometimes used as a term of endearment....
Classical Connections: You play the what?
A recent concert given by the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra included an unusual work for alpenhorn – an unwieldy thing about eight feet long that...
Latest Stories
Alle Personenbusse innerhalb der roten Zonen sind gestoppt
Die Staatliche Transport Co stoppte komplett alle Inter-Provinz Busse, voraussichtlich bis 2. August 2021.
Direktor Sanyalak Panwattanalikhit sagte, dass die Regierung dies als Sicherheitsmaßnahme beschlossen...
Panipak clinches Thailand’s first Olympic taekwondo gold
24 July 2021: World No 1 Panipak Wongpattanakit pinned a new chapter in the Thai history books after she became the Kingdom’s first taekwondo...
Thailand launches Olympic campaign with wins in badminton, boxing and table tennis
24 July 2021: Badminton’s world No 13 Busanan Ongbamrungphan and mixed doubles No 2 Dechapol Puavaranukroh/Sapsiree Taerattanachai began their campaigns in the Olympic Games...
Phuket intensifies inbound travellers screening to maintain sandbox safety standard
Phuket is ramping up Covid-19 control measures to screen inbound travellers.
The Phuket communicable disease committee resolved to step up measures, requiring incoming travellers to...
Over 15.7 million people in Thailand have received vaccines
Number of people who received vaccines:
1st dose: + 304,244
2nd dose: + 48,635
Total: 15,741,818
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).push({});
* 481,967...