Music and Memory
On Sunday I was at the Brighton Dome to review a Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra concert – a routine and regular professional job...
On Sunday I was at the Brighton Dome to review a Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra concert – a routine and regular professional job...
Tchaikovsky’s first piano concerto is a bit out of fashion – apart from, maybe, at Raymond Gubbay concerts. I haven’t heard a...
It is often said that his Requiem is Verdi’s greatest opera and it certainly isn’t short of musical drama. So it’s an...
The Kings Head Theatre, 2 October 2017 Puccini’s 1887 masterpiece was, of course, meant for the big stage, initially at Theatre de...
Not so long ago, My Loved One and I – we are children of the cap-doffing 1950s after all – would leap...
It is vital, if you can, for the three of you to take lots of interesting holidays when you’re a couple plus...
When dementia first starts to nibble, it’s tiny things such as slight slowness of speech when you’re tired or suddenly deciding that...
As always on the penultimate night of the world’s biggest classical music festival, the atmosphere in the Royal Albert Hall was up...