Tag: Classical Connections

Long ago, when I was a small boy and the world seemed a different place, I used to listen to a science-fiction programme on...

One day, during my time as an impoverished music student in London, I was ferreting through the records in a second-hand music shop and...

If you type the words “festival overture” into the search panel of your web browser it will probably come up with the three most...

You might be surprised to know that apart from all his symphonies, concertos and operas, Mozart also wrote quite a lot of what we’d...

There can be no other season that brings such a mood of joyful expectation as the spring.  One of the things I miss about...

You’ll probably remember this week’s title’s evocative phrase, the last line of that visionary poem by the English poet and painter William Blake.  It’s...

Most woodwind players spend a great deal of their time fretting about reeds.  Flute players are lucky because flutes don’t use reeds but all...

At the time, it was described by various writers as “useless and monstrous”, an object of “barbaric bulk” the “hateful tower” the “belfry skeleton”...

A few days ago I was browsing through ‘The Newspaper You Can Trust’ and noticed that the Thai Meteorological Department has predicted - with...

It cannot have escaped your notice that here in Thailand we are going through a period of seasonal change.  Even so, in this part...