From the great man’s maiden speech in the House of Lords in 1993, newly uploaded on Youtube.
‘Music is the one art,’ he says, ‘that can create order out of chaos.’
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Gregory Hines Tribute to Gene Kelly This is one of my favourite dance sequences. It’s from the 1982 Kennedy Center Honors and this is my old friend the late Gregory Hines paying tribute to Gene Kelly. […]
I loved the Quatuor Hanson‘s two previous recordings for Aparte Records. So when I saw them doing Schumann on Harmonia Mundi, I wondered, why Schumann? Of all the string quartet repertoire which they haven’t even begun […]
The composer and educator Jack Behrens passed away earlier this month in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. His 1970 orchestral work The Sound of Milo was warmly received. Behrens was chair of music theory and composition at the […]
