Tag: Classical Connections

Last week I was chatting with a couple of friends at a local coffee house and the subject turned, as it so often does,...

“When shall we three meet again?” is, you may recall, the first line spoken in the Scottish play (for I dare not utter its...

Frank J. Oteri, the American composer and music journalist once observed that music and painting seem to have very little in common.  They appeal...

In London, carnival usually means only one thing: the Notting Hill Carnival, a lively three-day celebration with street parades around the residential and shopping...

I don’t know about you, but I seem to have an aversion to snakes.  Now I’m sorry if you are a snake-lover but I...

Think of three baroque composers and you’ll probably come up with Bach, Handel and Vivaldi. There were hundreds of others of course, most of...

There was a time, not so long ago when much of Béla Bartók’s music seemed terribly modern-sounding.  As a schoolboy during the last century,...

I suppose when most people think of Polish classical music, they think of Chopin or polonaises.  The polonaise of course is a dance –...

“There is nothing wrong with your television set.  Do not attempt to adjust the picture…We will control the horizontal.  We will control the vertical…” If...

Some years ago, when I was involved in the gentle art of music education, I once became intensely irritated on hearing a well-meaning but...