Another side of my life!
Long before I knew anything about assessment, learning or teaching (or even science) I became passionate about classical music, and this has been a major part of my life throughout. I collected thousands of LPs, and now have thousands of CDs. I always carry lots of music around with me on iPods.
In the last few years, I’ve been sharing my passion for music in residential weekends at Madingley Hall, Cambridge, and have run programmes on 4th Symphonies (’Augmented 4ths’), 5th Symphonies (’Fabulous 5ths’), 1st Symphonies (’Fantastic Firsts’), ‘Magnificent Ninths’ at Madingley.
Shostakovich: a reflection
This short download is a piece I wrote to celebrate Shostakovich’s Centenary. In fact, the first lecture I ever gave (while a PhD student in science) was to a music society on the (then completed) symphonies of Shostakovich. Shostakovich (435)
Paul Rose
Paul lives next-door-but-one from me in Newcastle, and travels all over giving guitar recitals and teaching guitar. I’ve included his website in ‘blogroll’ and you may well want to hear his CDS.
New piano
I’ve recently taken delivery of a (digital) piano. I’ve not had access to an instrument for the last 15 years. That should keep me out of mischief! I can already play all the right notes, but not yet in the correct order. I am looking forward to struggling through favourite bits of Beethoven, Schubert and so on, at least finding out more about how the great composers brought ideas to reality, even if never aspiring to play anything when anyone else is listening!
