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...
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...
On hearing Beethoven for the first time
Carson McCullers' heroine, the boyish, quirky, imaginative Mick, comes from a rough and tumble poor background. Her only exposure to...
The smell of a tune
Mick, the young girl who for me is the heart of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, has a passion...
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...
Music as trinity
Aldous Huxley here likens music to the Trinity due to its capacity to say more than one thing at the...
Mercury as maestro
I love this depiction of Mercury as a gold-baton waving maestro easing our passage. May he play you a world-embracing symphony.
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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...
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...
A piercing sound
A high, piercing pipe sound likened to midges harassing the air, this simile makes me think of the horrifying tsssssssss...
Good morning aubade
An aubade is a poem or piece of music appropriate for early morning. In summer, I am lucky enough to...
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