Rising and falling like …
A description of Lindos which charmed me as much for its sea-cleaned pebble paving as for its simile for undulating...
Music as trinity
Aldous Huxley here likens music to the Trinity due to its capacity to say more than one thing at the...
Sing what you cannot say
In January 1942, a score of Verdi's Requiem was smuggled into Theresienstadt concentration camp and performed by prisoners, conducted by Rafael...
The mind’s cheap tunes
A sharp way to capture the Groundhog Day repetition of pointlessly churning regrets and anxieties: like a jingle you can't...
Lavender-flavoured comfits
Winder's witty and summary dismissal of the less interesting Haydn symphonies, cranked out for aristo-soirées. And isn't that a marvelous...
Letters unsent (II)
Clemency Burton-Hill describes the sight that greeted friends of the composer and pianist Erik Satie when, following his death in...
On hearing Beethoven for the first time
Listening time: 4 minutes. A favourite quotation from a favourite novel, Carson McCullers' The Heart is a Lonely...
Music in the inside room
One of the most touching aspects of this novel is the young girl Mick’s reaction to music she has never...
The first and last refuge
On World Music Day, something to ponder alongside the joy of music, whether making or hearing it.
'Music is the...
To listen as to a recurrent music
What a beautiful description of listening out for someone's voice.  Despite Adam's listening for her voice so, it doesn't yet...
On the practice of life
Alice Herz-Sommer was a pianist also believed to be the oldest Holocaust survivor, living to 110. She combined an astonishing...
Silence & music
Music is everywhere, this seems to imply; even silence is gravid with it!
‘Every silence contains music in a state...
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