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Tag Archives: instruments
Another Hot Night
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
Life is like a box of chocolates
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
Posted in Gareth Davies, Paris & Brussels May 2012
Tagged Belgium, Brussels, classical music, concert, flute, Gareth Davies, instruments, london symphony orchestra, LSO, music, musicians, orchestra, symphony, szymanowski, tour
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Use the Force Valery
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
Juan more concert
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
Posted in Gareth Davies, Spain January 2012
Tagged classical music, concert, culture, flute, instruments, london symphony orchestra, LSO, music, musicians, orchestra, Paella, symphony, tour, travel, valencia, Zaragoza
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Force 10 from Dalston
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
Can you hear the singers Gareth?
“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
Posted in Gareth Davies, Germany December 2011
Tagged classical music, concert, flute, Gareth Davies, instruments, london symphony orchestra, monteverdi, tour
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Shopping in the dark just isn’t cool
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
Posted in Gareth Davies, New York October 2011
Tagged Brooklyn, classical music, Gareth Davies, GQ, holister, Hugh Grant, instruments, london symphony orchestra, LSO, Missa Solemnis, Tate Modern
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Bad light stops play…eventually
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
Posted in Gareth Davies, Guildford September 2011
Tagged arts, classical music, concert, culture, Cwmllynfell, Daniil Trifonov, England, flute, G-Live, Gareth Davies, Guildford, guildford philharmonic orchestra, instruments, Juliet, london symphony orchestra, LSO, musicians, peppa pig, Surrey, Surrey Advertiser, Tod Handley, Valery Gergiev
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Perdu…in translation.
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
LSO Wind Academy 2011
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
Posted in Gareth Davies
Tagged Alexandre Desplat, arts, Chethams, Chris Richards, clarinet, classical music, flute, Gareth Davies, GSMD, Harry Potter, instruments, london symphony orchestra, LSO, LSO Discovery, musicians, RAM, RNCM, star wars, Students
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