Advent 11: Rite and Wrong
Most of the time, my experience, education, instinct and what I’ve picked up from friends and colleagues serves me quite well when it comes to speculating and arguing about music…
Advent 8: Reasons to be cheerful 5, 5, 4, 3, 11, 7, 6, 6, 9, 4, 4
Stravinsky’s Agon is a dastardly complex score, serialist, polyphonic, polyrhythmic, you name it, and Balanchine’s choreography takes no easy ways out. But that’s just the technical challenge of the piece,…
The Three Graces
Greetings from Prague, where I finally caught up with Chris who flew in from New Zealand on Sunday night at 10pm. By 10.20pm we’d hooked up with these two lovely…
Net curtains for critics?
From the technology pages of the Guardian, Is it Curtains for Critics?, a long discussion on the arguably diminished role of ink-and-paper critics in an online world.
The Ayn Rand cult
One of the decisions I regret most in life is opting to take Ayn Rand’s novel The Fountainhead to Crete with me as holiday reading a few years ago. I’d…