Unlike so many of my colleagues, I didn’t come from a particularly musical background. As a small child, the only classical music I heard was whatever cropped up on The Light Programme – I remember that my mother had the radio on … Continue reading
In all strata of society, classical music is seen as an intellectual and elitist pursuit; the costly preserve of the highly educated and hyper-sensitive. This is WRONG – completely and tragically wrong! An unfamiliarity with ‘high culture’ is simply that … Continue reading
People now live their lives through an information technology which is all-pervading and on a dizzying upward development path. Whether one considers this on the whole a good thing, as I think I do, or a bad one is not … Continue reading