Showing posts with label classical. Show all posts
Showing posts with label classical. Show all posts
Sunday, December 11, 2022

Direction of travel - Copland, Bartok and Bernstein in ADDA, Alicante

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It is rare for a concert program to hang together as a unit both musically and intellectually. But the latest program from the ADDA orchestr...
Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Óscar Esplá – music in context

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Some artists seem to be inextricably linked to places. Henry Moore’s legacy is in Leeds, where he studied, but was not born. Barbara Hepwort...
Tuesday, April 5, 2022

The Life of Lord Byron by John Galt

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John Galt published his Life of Lord Byron in 1830, just six years after the poet's death in Missolonghi, in what is now modern Greece a...
Sunday, March 13, 2022

Costa Blanca Arts Update - Through the emotions – Soler, Valero and Gandía at ADDA in Alicante

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Gala Lirica, Opera Gala or merely Song Medley often labels an admixture of showcase snippets, offered, it seems, primarily to advertise a vo...
Tuesday, October 26, 2021

SPQR by Mary Beard

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  I have just finished Mary Beard’s SPQR. I have just started Susan Sontag’s Against Interpretation. The connection? Susan Sontag’s essay de...
Saturday, January 30, 2021

SPQR by Mary Beard

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I have just finished Mary Beard’s SPQR. I have just started Susan Sontag’s Against Interpretation. The connection? Susan Sontag’s essay deal...
Monday, January 11, 2021

Childe Harold by Lord Byron

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I finished a novel recently. In Eileen McHugh, a life remade, I created a character called Alice, an art teacher close to retirement, as the...
Monday, July 6, 2020

Verdi: Man and musician by Frederick J Crowest

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I began reading this on the bus coming back from Valencia, having consumed Byron’s Corsair on the way up, before a performance of Il Corsar...
Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Adam Smith: An Inquiry Into The Nature And Causes Of The Wealth Of Nations

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Proverbially, the horse’s mouth is always the best source. Academically, primary material is usually the most reliable. So now what is to be...
Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Joaquin Palomares and Bruno Canino playing Brahms, Grieg and Franck

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The joy of music is that it is new every time it is played. There is no such thing as a definitive version of anything. A composer indicates...
Thursday, December 22, 2011

Marriage under scrutiny - A review of Jude The Obscure by Thomas Hardy

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In the postscript to the preface of Jude The Obscure, Thomas Hardy quotes a German reviewer of the novel. Sue Bridehead, the heroine, was de...