30/07/2010 My visit to Florence to meet Donatello’s David I am going to see the restored Donatello David in Florence.

23/07/2010 Stanley Spencer at Chatham Docks A Stanley Spencer exhibition opens at the Chatham Docks.

20/07/2010 Reading poetry on this website I have experimented with the idea of reading some of my poetry on this site.

16/07/2010 Don Carlos is it my favourite opera I wonder if Verdi’s Don Carlos is my favourite.

15/07/2010 Beryl and Charles – Me mixing with the great I remember Beryl Bainbridge and Charles Mackeras.

09/07/2010 My life as a double agent in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy How I got involved in the TV series Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.

07/07/2010 American TV series Dexter gets me writing again The TV series Dexter is inspiring.

06/07/2010 My technology problems and Verdi’s Don Carlos I have been having problems trying to listen to Verdi’s Don Carlos.

01/07/2010 How I caught Placido Domingo’s Cold I caught a cold from Placido Domingo.

30/06/2010 Elgar and the shame of the Bank Of England Elgar is removed from the £20 note.

04/05/2010 Mastersingers of Nuremberg
Those master singers from Nuremberg are worth listening to.

21/04/2010 How sunbathing made me think of Graham Greene
Graham Greene taught me how to use that sunbathing time.

02/04/2010 Victoria’s Tenebrae Responsories
The perfect music for Good Friday: Victoria’s Tenebrae Responsories.

30/03/2010 Wolfgang salutes Wolfgang
What is the point in trying to be creative when there is Mozart, Shakespeare and Joyce?

12/03/2010 Reinventing Beethoven’s Fifth
Beethoven, Liszt and Glenn Gould blow my socks off.

03/03/2010 Writing poetry is a job for grown ups
I get another poem published but still have negative thoughts.

25/02/2010 I had my first proper gig reading my poetry
I do a poetry reading down the pub with a load of slam poets.

19/02/2010 White Rabbit read my short story
I enjoy taking a back seat when White Rabbit perform one of my stories.

08/01/2009 Goodbye to Rossini and Berlioz
I say goodbye for now to two of my favourite composers.

21/10/2009 I am officially in print as a poet
I get copies of my first published poems and it feels great.

15/10/2009 A Great Piano
There is nothing like the sound of a great piano.

11/10/2009 Three operas about sex
Three operas all written in the same year and all about sex.

18/09/2009 A poetry reading and a monster is born
I give my first poetry reading.

30/09/2009Wagner’s erotic masterpiece
Love’s transfiguration in Wagner’s erotic imagination.

16/09/2009 Singing, cherry blossom and Caruso
Enrico Caruso and cherry blossom remind me of when I used to sing.

14/09/2009 Last night of the Proms – thank God it’s over
I love The Proms but hate that Last Night.

09/09/2009 When I met George Harrison and Paul McCartney
Let’s enjoy The Beatles and cut the crap.

07/09/2009 When some composers get bogged down Verdi and Offenbach always hit the button
Verdi and Offenbach always seem to get it right.

13/08/2009 Beuys will be Beuys even in Bexhill
The Beuys exhibition comes to the spectacular art deco De La Warr Pavilion.

10/07/2009 Frazier after a gap of eight months
I can watch television and film again after a gap of eight months and I am thrilled to see Frazier again.

24/06/2009 Rustling grass and Grey’s Elegy
Listening to the wind rustling the grass and thinking of Grey’s elegy makes me celebrate the internet.

11/06/2009 My new stammer makes me think about words and music
I am stammering at my poetry readings but inspired by the Bach Cantatas and the masses of Palestrina.

03/06/2009 Dvorak and Nelahozeves on a rainy November day
I went to Dvorak’s birthplace in the old Czechoslovakia.

28/05/2009 With a song in my heart – Ella Fitzgerald, Lorenz Hart and, oh yes, Richard Rodgers
Just in case you forget how great these artists were.

22/04/2009 Julius Reubke really was a musical genius
There is always a lot of hype about musical geniuses who die young but Reubke really was one.

08/03/2009 Let’s listen to music, Joni Mitchell, Bruckner and Above & Beyond and not just to music players
I am a fan of music in all its guises but I don’t want to become an equipment bore.

03/03/2009 Call me obsessive but I have been listening to music in chronological order
Is it obsessive to do what I have been doing?

18/09/2009 I re-discover the glories of Joni Mitchell
I was feeling down but Joni Mitchell found the right button.

15/02/2009 Finishing a book on Brahms begun before my illness brings back memories
I finish the Brahms biography and remember his part in my life up until now.

08/02/2009 Remembering childhood my passion for Madame Butterfly and an ancient knife
I found that old knife and discovered Puccini’s opera when I was at a very impressionable age.

30/01/2009 Mahler’s Third Symphony helps cure my World weariness
The World seemed a bad place to be until I started listening to Mahler’s Third again.

12/01/2009 I try to remember the name of that composer
I know his name so well but I just can’t remember it.

26/01/2009 Beethoven’s Fifth and my neurologist
I try to listen to Beethoven again when my neurologist calls.

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