Brigton Philharmonic 13 February 2022 (Susan Elkin reviews)
An unusual five work programme, this concert began and ended with Mendelssohn via two contrasting Ravel favourites and a dip into Fauré...
An unusual five work programme, this concert began and ended with Mendelssohn via two contrasting Ravel favourites and a dip into Fauré...
It’s one of those novels in which the setting broodingly, atmospherically underpins the action to such an extent that it almost becomes...
Maidstone Symphony Orchestra Mote Hall, Maidstone 5th February 2022 Posted on February 6, 2022 by Lark Reviews. There was an upbeat atmosphere of new...
I’ve never made any secret of my view that my CertEd teacher training course at Bishop Otter College, Chichester (1965-8) was not...
All dystopian novels are warnings. And Brave New World is the grandfather of them all. Rereading it after many years, I am...
Keen readers of this blog might remember that in September 2021 I wrote about Lady Chatterley’s Lover which I had just reread...
The centrepiece of this interesting concert was the world premiere of a work written in 1806. Ferdinand Ries, a pupil of Beethoven,...
AS Byatt writes in colour. There’s a vibrant pre-Raphelite quality about her prose in these stories which instantly reminded me of her...