Light in the darkness
Last Friday evening, in the Liceu audience in Barcelona, I listened to a single cellist play a mournful melody from
Tag: culture
The function and purposes of art
A few days ago, I happened to see a media article from a senior cultural figure in which they wrote
How the internet saved a community opera
It began with open workshops in community halls across County Durham, from ancient places sheltered in mountain valleys to younger
Another Angle of Vision
The last days of September in Orkney: weather fine and sunlit mirrors in Scapa Flow and Hoy Sound. The sky
The Pinning Stones
Portraits from The Pinning Stones by Ray Smith On Thursday, the residents of Scotland decide whether to leave the United Kingdom
A question
An experiment in brevity: I have had this question in my mind for a little while.
Human diversity is
I have seen the future, brother, it is murder. Leonard Cohen, The Future, (1993) From the street corner where Gavrilo
Below the radar
There’s a lot of interest at the moment in the value of culture and cultural value (not the same thing),
Joining the canon
As tribute records go, La Bande à Renaud, is not bad, but it is a little sad. There is a
In search of gravitas
Gravitas, the heavy tread of moral earnestness, becomes a bore if it is not accompanied by the light step of
Parliament of Dreams 