Singapore
Lovely to be in Singapore for the Genée International Ballet Competition. By far my favourite find of the trip is the Jalan Besar Stadium pool: outdoor, 50m, clean, and the…
More PowerPoint pain
I guess it’s almost official then, now that it’s a story on the BBC news site: PowerPoint presentations really do suck. Click here for some wonderful examples. My favourite ‘worst…
For ballet music fans…
Thanks to Adam Lopez (who I have to thank on an almost weekly basis these days), genius creator of all nearly all the Wikipedia pages on Petipa, Minkus and Imperial…
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…
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…
Advent 25: And the last word…
…goes to John O’Brien. I could never pinpoint why John’s classes, and the experience of working with him was quite so different to every other teacher. Then one day, he…