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A Digital Cultural Life
Can you experience cultural enrichment in a virtual world? Another way of looking at this question is if our foremost experience of culture had always been gleaned digitally, would it be a lesser one? COVID-19 has vastly changed our cultural
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There’s No “Quick Fix” to Learning to Play an Instrument
The internet is full of articles promising to help you learn to play an instrument: – Learn to play in just 4 weeks!– Play piano in 10 easy steps– 5 ways to become a great pianist As one of my
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The World at Your Door: VirtuMasterClass
The COVID-19 Pandemic closed everything around the world from your office to your favourite restaurant to your favourite concert halls and then, slowly, we figured out how to Zoom, the wonders of online ordering and delivery, and the concerts that
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On My Music Desk……
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor – ‘Deep River’
Deep river, my home is over Jordan; Deep river, Lord, I want to cross over into campground.Oh don’t you want to go to that gospel feast, that Promised Land where all is peace?Deep river, Lord, I want to cross over
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Eric Lu at Wigmore Hall
10 October 2020: Schubert This concert will be live streamed on the Wigmore Hall website in HD, and all concerts in the Autumn Series will be available on demand for 30 days after the date of the concert. This generous
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My Beethoven by Chris
It’s taken a while to get to this article. When the Interlude.HK organisation requested an article about LVB + Me to contribute to his 250th birthday celebrations, I thought ‘great, how hard can that be?’, and then promptly spent the
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Speaking the Music
Helping audiences to feel the deep connection with music and musicians Musicians are often praised for their ability to “communicate” – through the sounds of music and the accompanying physical gestures in performance which help “tell the story” of the
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Robin Tritschler at Wigmore Hall
Graham Johnson, piano6 October 2020: Schubert This concert will be live streamed on the Wigmore Hall website in HD, and all concerts in the Autumn Series will be available on demand for 30 days after the date of the concert.
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