100 days is far too soon to pronounce on the success of the Coalition government. The more challenging political hazards that lie ahead will properly to test its competence. Continue reading
The Import HTML Pages WordPress plugin has enabled me to import static content from a site formerly maintained using Dreamweaver and so realise the benefits of using a CMS. Learn how I did it. Continue reading
Aged 55 when he composed The Music Makers, Elgar would live for a further 22 years after it received its premiere. Even so, right from the rising and falling figure at the outset, its orchestration conveys a predominantly autumnal, melancholy … Continue reading
If Towards the Unknown Region followed in a European tradition of choral songs with orchestra, Vaughan Williams’ Flos Campi marks a decisive break from it. Scored for solo viola, chamber orchestra and small wordless chorus, it could be described as … Continue reading
Continuing today my brief survey of music that featured in a concert by the Somerset Chamber Choir, I focus today on a work by Ralph Vaughan Williams, one of the great composers of the Twentieth Century. Towards the Unknown Region … Continue reading
Singing in a concert, The Dreamers of Dreams, in Wells Cathedral with the Somerset Chamber Choir on 31 July set me thinking about the works we performed. Here is the first in a series of reflections; it focuses on Parry’s … Continue reading