Last night we had the final rehearsal for the Cranmer concert , which is tomorrow night at St. Giles. The rehearsal was in the lovely church...

I am making great strides with my listening to the Ring, interrupted periodically with forays in other lands (plainchant, operetta by Kalman...

We had the first rehearsal for the Cranmer concert last night, at St. Giles Cripplegate where we will be performing on Friday 1st. It didn...

To St. John's Smith Square last night for a concert by the Salomon Orchestra conducted by Robin Ticciati. The orchestra are London...

Re-reading the reviews, so far, of this year's operas at Grange Park I am struck again by how often the country house milieu seems to im...

The PC engineer came this morning and replaced the motherboard on my PC, so in theory we are now back in business. I spent the weekend writi...

This morning I went to my PC at 7.15am as usual, only to discover that there was no power. After lots of investigation I came to exactly the...

I am currently listening to a complete Ring cycle for a review; something of a novelty for me, as I rarely listen to the entire Ring in anyt...

We went to see Handel's Jephtha at the Coliseum last week. Sitting in the 4th row of the stalls, we had few complaints about the audibi...

So, it seems that ENO are finally planning to introduce surtitle (see article in The Guardian ). This has long been on the cards and, given ...

I've just finished tinkering with my song cycle, Quickening . It was written for voice, viola and piano setting Christina Rosetti poems ...

Last week, besides recovering from our holiday, we took delivery of a new printer, another HP Laserjet to replace our existing ailing one. T...

Well we're back home again after a 2 week tour of the Western Isles of Scotland. 2 weeks when we managed to avoid emails and world news....

Well, I've just found a rather useful article by Donald Burrows on the findarticles web site, originally published in the Musical Time...

St. George's Church, Hanover Square might date from Handel's time, and have been his parish church, but it is an unconscionably dif...

It has been quite a busy few days. Printer problems last week mean that I am now in the market for a new laser printer, ours is proving too ...

Well, the deed is done and I have finally printed and delivered the choral copies for my concert on 1st July, it seemed to take forever and ...

Over the weekend the house has started to resemble a print shop. I am printing the choral copies for my birthday concert on 1st July. So I...

Last weeks Metrolife supplement to the Evening Standard carried a note, on its gay pages, about the Saturday's Pink Singers concert with...

We had our first rehearsal yesterday for the Fifteenb consort's concert at the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music at St. Pan...