

Performers in the Time of COVID: Livia Frankish
I so much enjoyed speaking to clarinettist Livia Frankish in the third week of Lockdown 2. Our conversation was full of laughter and...


Performers in the Time of COVID: Lene Sahlholdt
Lene Sahlholdt, a Danish soprano of enormous range and versatility, talked to me on Zoom in the second week of Lockdown 2. I asked her to...


Performers in the Time of COVID: Sally Mortemore
I talked to Sally Mortemore, an actor of conviction and intensity, on Zoom on the first Monday of Lockdown 2. She looked comfortable and...


Performers in the Time of COVID: Eyal Pik
I chatted to guitarist, singer-songwriter, music producer extraordinaire and, dare I say it, philosopher Eyal Pik on Zoom on the Monday...


Performers in the Time of COVID: Abigail Dance
I caught up on Zoom with Abigail Dance, a violinist, violist and educationalist of enormous passion and energy, on a rainy Tuesday in...


Shalom Salaam
'There is a voice that doesn't use words. Listen' Rumi This is how our upcoming February concert (information and booking details at...


Music and Children
Music is a mystery. What is it exactly? Music is sound certainly, but all sound is not music. It seems that the defining characteristic...


Storming the Bastille (a reflection on revolution)
In 1934 the American theologian Karl Reinhold Niebuhr, began to end his sermons with a short prayer: God grant me the serenity to accept...


On Hope
It was in early 1841 that the 31 year old Robert Schumann composed his first symphony. He had, the previous year, married 21 year old...


Othering
We are strange creatures, we humans. On the one hand we do not do so well on our own. We are bees in a beehive, each of us contributing...