A belated world book day post: 10 things to love about Zotero
If you like books, you'll love Zotero. And it's free. Here's a post about how I like using it most.
Galina Bezuglaya’s second book
Perhaps you have to be as old as I am to be quite as excited about a book arriving from Russia, but it’s doubly exciting since I ordered it on…
Varieties of reading: drawing in and pulling away
I’ve just finished reading Matthew Crawford’s The World Beyond Your Head, which I’d happily say is one of the best books I’ve read in the last year. I wonder when…
Playing for ballet class: links, books, suggestions
Where can you go, what can you do, and what can you read, watch or listen to to learn to play for ballet? Here are some tips.
What Schenker, Nicholas Cook & a food processor taught me about piano fingering
By what turns out to be a happy coincidence, I managed this week to combine reading Nicholas Cook’s Beyond the Score: Music as Performance with an accident in which I…
Dancing masters, music and memory
I’m thoroughly enjoying Eric McKee’s book Decorum of the minuet, delirium of the waltz: a study of dance-music relations in 3/4 time. There are books that you grow up with…