Every good boy deserves favour
To the National Theatre to see Every Good Boy Deserves Favour by Tom Stoppard & André Previn on the recommendation of Chris who happily went to see it again with…
Multi-tasking? No thanks.
Multi-schmulti "I'm just multi-tasking" is a phrase that annoys me like no other. I don't think I've ever heard a man use the word about himself, but then 'multi-tasking', according…
Bach on Mars
For the curious, this is what Bach on Mars would sound like, given the local gases etc. I’m glad there are scientists out there working out this important stuff.
Why music?
Waiting in the check-out queue at Sainsburys the other day, I was mesmerized by the sight of a lardy teenage girl standing – or rather pulsating and jerking compulsively like…
On Mendelssohn, Hampson, and ‘musical music’
Hello world, happy new year. Though I say it myself, I rather liked my Advent Calendar of 2008. It’s nicely ironic that I should have begun it with ‘Solving Musical…