Tag: Classical Connections
Classical Connections: Paws for thought
The other day, while chatting with one of the dogs outside Tesco-Lotus, it occurred to me that animals of all sorts have been the...
Classical Connections: Musical forks
Every one of the countless number of Yamaha motorcycles sports the company’s famous logo. If you look at it closely, it should be obvious...
Classical Connections: A hundred and still counting
You might be interested to know that this is the one hundredth Classical Connections column. On the other hand perhaps you couldn’t care less,...
Classical Connections: Touching in its majesty
We have to thank William Wordsworth for the title. It’s a phrase from one of his sonnets and refers - surprisingly perhaps - to...
Classical Connections: Summertime
If any piece of music evokes the sultry heat of summer in South Carolina it’s the song Summertime written in 1934 by George Gershwin...
Classical Connections: There’s no place like Rome
You know the saying, “When in Rome do as the Romans do”. It sounds like another Shakespearean quotation but actually it has a much...
Classical Connections: A special place
You might have come across a website called Quora, on which people can pose questions to others about virtually anything that springs to mind. ...
Classical Connections: As low as you can get
There’s an old joke which asks how you get a double bass to sound in tune. The answer is that you chop it up...
Classical Connections: Special effects
Three hundred and seventy-two years ago Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber was baptized on 12th August 1644 in the small Bohemian town of Wartenberg....
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Pattaya tightens city regulations following fireworks festival vendor complaints
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Pattaya’s traffic has hit a breaking point
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