Advent Calendar 2009
It’s become something of a habit for me to do an ‘Advent Calendar’ of posts on music and dance topics, so this year, I’ve decided it’s going to be musical…
Burnt oranges and ballet music
I reached a point in a recipe once where I wondered whether I could really be bothered to dry-fry coriander seeds and then crush them. The person who’d written the…
If you want to show your buttocks in Idaho, put on a ballet
From the Argus Observer in Idaho comes a lovely story about naked hockey players that would have delighted the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, author of Distinction, in which he argues…
Give to East Cheshire Hospice
Get your credit cards out… On November 7th, best pal & favourite choreographer Christopher Hampson is running the marathon in aid of the East Cheshire Hospice, who looked after David…
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…
Diana Payne-Myers 80th Birthday Party pics
Updated in 2020: How things have changed. Only in 2008 I thought it was fine to upload a gallery of a dear friend’s 80th Birthday Party. The gallery app that…