Category: Journal
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London Mozart Players and Sheku Kanneh-Mason at Fairfield Halls
Increasingly my concert-going experiences start long before the first note is played and extend beyond the music heard in the auditorium.
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Thoroughly Good at ABO2023
A pre-brief for those who, like me, find networking phenomenally challenging.
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Community and connection at a Weymouth Lunchtime Chamber Concert
Human connection in a performance by a musician embarking on her career.
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Kinan Azmeh’s Clarinet Concerto at Royal Festival Hall
Riveting music-making from Syrian clarinettist Kinan Azmeh.
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24 hours in Hamburg
A lightning visit to Hamburg with one overriding goal: experience the Elb Philharmonie. I’d been looking forward to this trip from when the idea came to mind on the 75 bus back from Vicky Haircuts a month or so ago. Heading to Hamburg to experience the city’s splendid Elb Philharmonie for the first time seemed…
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London Mozart Players, Leia Zhu, Leslie Suganandarajah and Beethoven’s Violin Concerto at QEH
Zhu is a phenomenal talent. She is reassuringly self-assured. The complete package.
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A Thoroughly Good Christmas Message
Convention dictates at this time of year that generic Christmas wishes are sent to recipients on a great long mailing list. Make the message as broad and inclusive as possible and the process is made infinitely less onerous. Such strategies can result in a bland message, I find. Taking time to find the right message…
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Relatively straightforward choices
When you’re paying for your concert experiences the decision-making process is surprisingly easy. At least it seems that way to me this week. Full transparency (and don’t think badly of me): it’s only recently I’ve started paying for my concert tickets. Previously the concerts I’ve attended have been on a quid pro quo basis. When…
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Ulster Orchestra plays Dvorak 9 at Ulster Hall
The Ulster Orchestra strings are inconceivably rich. To hear them playing their loudest you’d think there were more of them squirrelled away somewhere.
