Don’t get so upset about it

June 4, 2022

Here’s a little post about feeling overwhelmed by artistic experience. I was listening to Leonard Bernstein conducting Brahms’s Haydn variations. I said to my nearest and dearest, as the seventh Read the full article…

The Penny Quartet at the Melbourne Recital Centre

May 10, 2022

6pm on a Monday evening isn’t the easiest ask for a family man like me, but some calls are louder than others. The highly-regarded and -awarded Penny Quartet was to Read the full article…

Who’s your favourite piano player?

March 23, 2022

Interview questions can be really interesting, and encourage you to think along lines you haven’t before. They’re the best ones, and when the interviewer shows a genuine interest in what Read the full article…

One hundred more

November 10, 2020

Following on from my last post, I write to complete the story of the quarantunes. After a hiatus of almost a fortnight, in which I thought I’d finished, I recommenced Read the full article…

Sharing is caring

June 26, 2020

So I have now completed a run of a hundred very nearly daily pieces, filmed for public viewing on Facebook, that I wound up entitling ‘quarantunes’. As noted in the Read the full article…