Jan 26, 2016Jacqueline du Pré – a terrible premonitionOn what would have been the 71th birthday of Jacqueline du Pré, the words of János Starker sound a provocative warning Jacqueline du Pré...
Oct 8, 2015George Eliot on violin-making obsession and the genius of StradivariusTo mark the UK's National Poetry Day, 8th October, here's George Eliot's great poem about violin making and the obsession with which...
Aug 16, 2015What do actors and musicians have in common?A recent performance of the whole of Homer’s epic Iliad offered an opportunity to observe actors close up and to understand what their...
Jun 2, 2015Peter Cropper and the art of story tellingThe great violinist, former leader of the Lindsay Quartet, and one of the unique and most charismatic voices in chamber music, died on...