Taking sides
When one of my friends says ‘I saw this and thought of you’, you can bet it’s not a kiss-me-quick hat or Behind the scenes at The Apprentice. ‘It’s a…
White noise
When my friend Andrew told me that the only way he could study at university was to listen to white noise through headphones, I thought that was the kind of…
Happy Birthday…
Cake by Paul, Champagne by Lanson, Ballerina from Atlanta, choreographer by Hampson. Happy Birthday!
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…