10478192_892897714121017_151927479246341
Talk about music
  • Home

  • Interviews

  • Views

  • Content

  • About

  • Portfolio

  • Contact

  • More...

    Use tab to navigate through the menu items.
    • Facebook
    • Twitter
    • Instagram Social Icon
    • LinkedIn
    Bye Bye, Bellowhead
    Ariane Todes

    Bye Bye, Bellowhead

    The ground-breaking English folk band has broken up after 12 years, leaving this fangirl sad – but grateful I’m not a mosher. I don’t generally mosh. I’m more likely to be seen standing at the back of a gig venue, hands in pockets, listening carefully, judging warily and only jiggling my hips – a little self-consciously – if the music takes me. Maybe it’s something to do with my classical music background and a training in which every sound gets analysed, every phrase gets cr
    Should classical players cross over?
    Ariane Todes

    Should classical players cross over?

    While I’ve been researching my article on violinists who’ve crossed musical borderlines, for Sinfini Music, I found myself debating with myself (a bad habit). What gives violin stars the right to pick up another genre? Of course there’s no such thing as rights when it comes to music, but there is a certain sense of appropriateness (or appropriation). I wouldn’t go on stage at the Festival Hall and play the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto if I didn’t have complete control of the n