A Letter from Home

I've reached a pause in the teaching schedule - I have Friday mornings off (I'm helping a colleague on Friday afternoons at the mome...

I reckon a post a day is not going to happen. So I'm just going to compromise on getting 30 posts out in the month of November. The Ye...

It only seems a couple of hours since I put up the last post... oh yeah. It WAS only ten and a half hours ago... Since then I have tau...

I think there may be several blog posts with this title as the month goes on. I got back late from Book Club and went straight to bed. The...

Today's Year of Wonder piece of music is the slow movement of Grieg's Piano Concerto . This is Rubenstein playing. https://en.wi...

That's the name of today's music by Olafur Arnalds, a young Icelandic composer. It is odd. And haunting. And wintery. It was a co...