Tooting and the wonder of Dadu’s
As one of the things that makes Upper Tooting an earthly paradise is its freedom from supermarkets from the Bec to the Broadway, I thought I’d give a friendly push…
The wonderful voice of Oleg Pogudin
In my search for the authors of Dorogoi Dlinnoyu (see last entry) I have listened to scores of different recordings, and discovered that Aleksandr Vertinskii wrote some of the most…
Copyrighting the public domain
When the choreographer Christopher Hampson had to change the music for his piece Canciones four days before the premiere because City Ballet of London couldn’t get permission to use de…
Happy Christmas
Another year where I’ve been completely hopeless at sending Christmas cards, so here – for the two or three people who read this site – is something just as lovely,…
J’accuse: the eurocentricity of eurocentrism
All of the last entry in my weblog brings me on to my next rant: the meaninglessness of ‘eurocentrism’. The quickest and easiest way to avoid responsible scholarship is to…