Tag: Classical Connections
Classical Connections: Double trouble
Most woodwind players spend a great deal of their time fretting about reeds. Flute players are lucky because flutes don’t use reeds but all...
Classical Connections: ‘This Ghastly Dream’
At the time, it was described by various writers as “useless and monstrous”, an object of “barbaric bulk” the “hateful tower” the “belfry skeleton”...
Classical Connections: Singin’ in the Rain
A few days ago I was browsing through ‘The Newspaper You Can Trust’ and noticed that the Thai Meteorological Department has predicted - with...
Classical Connections: Seasonal changes
It cannot have escaped your notice that here in Thailand we are going through a period of seasonal change. Even so, in this part...
Classical Connections: Paws for thought
The other day, while chatting with one of the dogs outside Tesco-Lotus, it occurred to me that animals of all sorts have been the...
Classical Connections: Musical forks
Every one of the countless number of Yamaha motorcycles sports the company’s famous logo. If you look at it closely, it should be obvious...
Classical Connections: A hundred and still counting
You might be interested to know that this is the one hundredth Classical Connections column. On the other hand perhaps you couldn’t care less,...
Classical Connections: Touching in its majesty
We have to thank William Wordsworth for the title. It’s a phrase from one of his sonnets and refers - surprisingly perhaps - to...
Classical Connections: Summertime
If any piece of music evokes the sultry heat of summer in South Carolina it’s the song Summertime written in 1934 by George Gershwin...
Classical Connections: There’s no place like Rome
You know the saying, “When in Rome do as the Romans do”. It sounds like another Shakespearean quotation but actually it has a much...
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