Well, you know me: I do like me a good new gadget. Particularly a good new gadget. I've been meaning to write about my favourite ones for ages, and so why not continue my meme of "... of 2010" posts that appear way into 2011? So with undue delay, ...
We've been to hear two events in the Sound Mind series where the Cheltenham Science Festival invades the Music Festival. The first was Does Music Make you Better?, which I've already written about. The other event was The Sound of Melancholia and ...
The St.Ebbe's group covered the following songs, which were new to most people: Come people of the risen king [Stuart Townend] - video of recording Come hear the angels sing (Hear the heaven's shout) [Michael Morrow, 2006] - music scores Nothing b...
For several years now, most of my music listening is done either from my iPod (particularly commuting to work on the bus, and when running), or through iTunes when I'm at my desk. About 18 months ago I decided to rate all the music sitting in thes...
For Martha's birthday we went to the Town Hall to hear the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. The high point was Boris Giltburg tackling Rachmaninov's glittering 2nd Piano Concerto - Martha's favourite piece of music. But we liked Tchaikovsky's Firs...
A real treat - Martha's favourite concerto and one of my favourite symphonies and at our favourite concert hall the same night. Wonderful playing from the CBSO under the baton of Xian Zhang. The concert started with Ravel's Mother Goose Suite, whi...
We've done at least 12 hours in the car so far, and without any CDs on us, we've listened to a lot of radio. We've listened to some rock, soft rock, country and Christian stations so far. UK artists get more of an airing than we were expecting, wi...