Ainola, Finland – Jean and Aino Sibelius’ place.
I was in Finland in August and September 2022 and, when I was staying in Helsinki, it was relatively easy to get a train for the 24 mile journey to a place I had read about often and wondered what…
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Listening to great composers now that I’m not young enough to know everything.
When I was a teenager I thought I had all the answers about classical music. It was all quite simple then. Palestrina, Victoria, Byrd, Purcell, Monteverdi, J.S.Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Rossini, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Bellini, Chopin, Berlioz, Verdi, Brahms, Debussy,…
My long-term companion in music, Charles Rosen dies.
Charles Rosen (1927-2012) There’s been a depressing cull of people that I’ve admired over the last week, Dave Brubeck and then Charles Rosen and as I write this I hear that the inspiring Indian musician Ravi Shankar has also died.…