Tag: Classical Connections
Classical Connections: A special place
You might have come across a website called Quora, on which people can pose questions to others about virtually anything that springs to mind. ...
Classical Connections: As low as you can get
There’s an old joke which asks how you get a double bass to sound in tune. The answer is that you chop it up...
Classical Connections: Special effects
Three hundred and seventy-two years ago Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber was baptized on 12th August 1644 in the small Bohemian town of Wartenberg....
Classical Connections: From riches to rags
One afternoon back in the 1980s, I was bowling along a German autobahn in my Datsun Bluebird coupé having spent a pleasant week in...
Classical Connections: Scotland the Brave
You’ll probably recognise the title as that of a well-known patriotic song but it’s not as old as you might imagine. The song appeared...
Classical Connections: To boldy go…
It’s one of the most well-known split infinitives of the last few decades, thanks to the cult TV series Star Trek. Each programme began...
Classical Connections: Songs of the Sea
The other day I was reciting that John Masefield poem called Cargoes to one of the dogs. That’s the short poem which begins theatrically...
Larking around
Despite the ornithological theme, I have to admit that I’m not much good at recognising birds, even though my father could spot a great...
Lights in the sky
If it sounds like this is going to be a breathless piece of journalism about UFOs over Pattaya, I am afraid it’s not. I’m...
Sonata for what?
It is surprising the number of instruments that have fallen out of favour over the years. For over two hundred years the most influential...
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