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A Rock and Roll hero is something to be …

No apologies from me for being a Rolling Stones fan – when about fifteen years ago I took part in a survey conducted by a family member I picked their 1971 and 1972 albums Sticky Fingers and Exile on Maine Street among my Top Ten all-time favourites – thus any reservations or criticisms [...]

September 18, 2015 // 0 Comments

A Brit doing well in the USA

James Corden – he of improvised comic skills in providing assistance to Comic Relief and ‘live’ presenting of the BBC Sports Review of the Year – is now apparently, after somewhat mixed early reviews – knocking the ball out of the park on his Late Late Show in the [...]

September 16, 2015 // 0 Comments

Back where it all began

Last night, after my first visit to the gym for about a month, I settled down to make my evening ‘TV dinner’ meal and watch my recording of Up On Cyprus Avenue [originally transmitted on BBC Four on the evening of Sunday 6th September], which had been billed as the highlights of two concerts [...]

September 8, 2015 // 0 Comments

The summer concert / Schonbrunn Palace, Vienna

I have followed the discussions  on the Rust of the pros and cons of attending a sporting event or watching it in the comfort of your own home. The same applies to the performing arts. Last night BBC 4 transmitteda the summer concert from the Schonbrunn Palcae in Vienna performed by the Viennese [...]

July 6, 2015 // 0 Comments

Foot in mouth as an occupational hazard

Perhaps the blazing sunshine I’ve been sitting in this week has fried my brain, but today I’m almost going to argue against the very reasons that I first began contributing my scribblings to the Rust, i.e. the belief that those of us beyond the first flush of youth still have valid things to [...]

July 5, 2015 // 0 Comments

Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail / Mozart at Glyndebourne

Four things put me off opera : 1) most operas are sung in German, French or Italian and I find it hard to follow the super-titles and the stage; 2) that the cast can sing but are wooden actors; 3) that those who really like opera tend to be obsessives; 4) the corporates that have adopted it as part [...]

July 4, 2015 // 0 Comments

A night at the Albert

Gladys Knight – or the ‘Empress of Soul’ as she has long been known, presumably a title that about twenty-five years ago caused Michael Jackson to suddenly begin calling himself the ‘King of Pop’ – played to a sold-out the Royal Albert Hall last night. As your local reporter, I was on [...]

July 2, 2015 // 0 Comments

Quality versus commercial success

Sometimes those of us who are content to confess “I know nothing about Art [with a capital ‘a’] but I know what I like …” are condemned for either copping out and/or being Philistines, but that’s life and anyway so what? Personally, for example as regards music I am devoid of both [...]

June 28, 2015 // 0 Comments

Carmen/Glyndebourne

I  have never been wholly been convinced by Glyndebourne and not being an opera buff the less well known ones elude me. It also is rather expensively corporate on the one hand, a Glastonbury for grown ups on the other. However having moved nearby and wishing to participate in cultural life I duly [...]

June 20, 2015 // 0 Comments

It’s more complicated than you think

About every six or seven years my brother runs a musical survey which he sends out to all his pals – and indeed, via that constituency, accepts responses from anyone else (e.g. family members, friends, acquaintances) that they make aware of its existence. The survey has a very simple structure [...]

June 3, 2015 // 0 Comments

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