Tag: Classical Connections

A good many years ago when I was living back in The Cold Country, I decided to buy a new car radio.  I chose...

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,...

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....

A recent concert given by the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra included an unusual work for alpenhorn – an unwieldy thing about eight feet long that...

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...