Tag: Classical Connections
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: 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...
Delights from a small country
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...
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