Philip Spires commonplace book

I have kept a commonplace book for many years. It's a place where scraps of impressions are filed for future reflection. It's not a diary, it's just a mental scrapbook, concentrating on book reviews, concert reviews, visual arts and some occasional pieces on travel. It is also a place where I occasionally reflect on what I write. Details of my books can be found at http://www.philipspires.co.uk

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Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Denia International Piano Festival Programme 2 oct Duo Bringuier-Monakh

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Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Denia International Piano Festival 2025 - five concerts from great pianists from October to December

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Ars Alta Cultural is pleased to announce details of this year’s Denia International Piano Festival. In its third year, for the first time ...

Tuesday, December 17, 2024

Denia International Piano festival, Programme 17 December Prodigios

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Wednesday, November 27, 2024

Programa de Festival Internacional de Piano, Denia

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Friday, November 8, 2024

Shunta Morimoto at the Denia International Piano Festival in Bach, Chopin and Liszt

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I don ’ t normally write detailed reviews of chamber music concerts. It ’ s not because they often aren’t memorable, it ’ s just that I te...

Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Shunta Morimoto plays in Denia, 7 November 2024, 8pm, Teatro Centro Social

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Monday, November 27, 2023

Programa 29 de noviembre Festival de Piano de Denia - Mihaela Manea tocará Scarlatti, Brahms, Enescu y Liszt

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Wednesday, November 15, 2023

Programa 15 de noviembre Festival de Piano de Denia

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Monday, October 23, 2023

Congyu Wang - 24 Oct Denia International Piano Festival

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Congyu Wan's playing was explosive and at the same time tender. He has definitely thought about every phrase. But he does not over-s...

Wednesday, May 4, 2022

Costa Blaca Arts Update - Dmytro Choni in Denia

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Dmytro Choni is a pianist from Ukraine who has won the Santander competition and finished fourth in Leeds. Such results are irrelevant onc...

Saturday, August 16, 2008

Poisoned Petals by Andy Crabb

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Poisoned Petals by Andy Crabb is a set of over forty short stories, tales with a Spanish flavour. Most are set in Spain, with many featuring...

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philipspires: I was born in Wakefield and was brought up in Sharslton, a mining Village. I went to London University and then became a maths teacher, working initially as a volunteer teacher in Kenya. I spent sixteen years in London, in Balham and Islington. In 1992, I left Britain for Brunei and then Zayed University in Abu Dhabi. I currently live in La Nucia, near Benidorm in Spain. I am interested in the relationship between nature and nurture, birthright and experience. Themes of culture and identity and their relation to economic and social roles underpin my writing. What we are born into relates to what we become, but we are rarely in control. What others do, our interests and intellects and the way we choose to earn a living, all of these shape us into what we become. It may be that culture is the sum of all assumptions that others make on our behalf, whereas identity represents our reactions to them. I did a PhD on the effects of education in economic development in the Philippines. I was President of Alfas del Pi Music Society for twelve years.

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