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...
Jan 26, 2016Careless talk costs livesAs Nigel Kennedy goes on Radio 4's Mastertapes programme to be rude about Baroque performance practice, here's a blog I wrote in 2011 on...
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...
Sep 24, 2015We’re all misfit weirdos nowThe breadth and success of David Byrne’s recent curatorship of Southbank Centre’s Meltdown Festival demonstrate how the curiosity and...