Tag Archives: instruments

Another Hot Night

Posted on 14 July 2012 by LSO

If you’ve ever had the misfortune to spend prolonged periods of your life in the glittering half life of the back stage area of any concert hall around the world then you will be familiar with the scene I am … Continue reading →

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Life is like a box of chocolates

Posted on 4 May 2012 by LSO

Brussels. The centre of European bureaucracy and, if you read the right newspapers, the enemy of our proud British traditions. Leaving the Euro debate alone for the moment, Brussels has been accused at various points in the last decade of … Continue reading →

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Use the Force Valery

Posted on 5 March 2012 by LSO

I remember walking down the Nanjing Road in Shanghai a couple of years ago and being offered goods aplenty. This week however it seems worse than ever. As I get further down the road, I can always see people suddenly … Continue reading →

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Juan more concert

Posted on 31 January 2012 by LSO

From the comfort of the train speeding through the Spanish countryside, you could be forgiven for thinking that it is summer. The sun is high and the deep blue stretches far into the distance, the only clouds visible on the … Continue reading →

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Force 10 from Dalston

Posted on 22 December 2011 by LSO

There was a distinctly end of term feeling in Munich last night. We may not have been playing any carols but the spirit was there, and it wasn’t just the Gluhwein from the snow covered Christmas market. The orchestra, as … Continue reading →

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Can you hear the singers Gareth?

Posted on 19 December 2011 by LSO

“Gareth! How does it sound?” Sir John Eliot Gardiner is turning around on his rostrum and asking my opinion on the balance rehearsal in Hamburg. On stage are the vast forces needed for Beethoven’s 9th symphony, although with John Eliot … Continue reading →

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Shopping in the dark just isn’t cool

Posted on 24 October 2011 by LSO

I always miss my family, especially in New York where there are so many things I would like to share with them. It doesn’t seem right going up the Empire State Building on my own without my wife and/or the … Continue reading →

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Bad light stops play…eventually

Posted on 26 September 2011 by LSO

Regular readers of the blog will not be surprised to know that I am writing this having just watched Wales destroy Namibia in the Rugby World Cup. My Welsh father and a childhood involving many trips to Cwmllynfell to see … Continue reading →

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Perdu…in translation.

Posted on 6 July 2011 by LSO

The more astute amongst you will note that I have made scant comment in my periodical postcards of the other opera which is being performed here in Aix. Mozart, I hear, was quite a clever chap. He knew how to … Continue reading →

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LSO Wind Academy 2011

Posted on 1 July 2011 by LSO

The eagle eyed readers will have noticed that whilst a large proportion of the LSO is in Aix, almost all of those left behind performed Fauré Requiem in St Paul’s this week. I say almost all, as Fauré neglected to … Continue reading →

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