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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

Barely leaving the pier

Although as the Rust’s ‘music man’ I am entrusted with commenting upon all kinds of music and performer, like any human being I have my heroes. A personal favourite of mine is Brian Wilson, the mastermind behind the Beach Boys, whom I regard as one of the greats of the past seventy five [...]

May 25, 2015 // 0 Comments

Don Carlos/ Brighton Dome Concert

Yesterday husband Ollie and I made a late decision to come down to Brighton. Ollie is keen on classical music, being secretary of the local  madrigal society called the Pimlico Performers. Sounds likes a group of swingers rather than devotees of baroque music, but no such luck!!! The Brighton [...]

May 24, 2015 // 0 Comments

You see it your way, I’ll see it mine

Overnight I was both interested and intrigued to see a piece on the website of The Independent about the steps that the late actor/comedian Robin Williams has taken to secure his legacy or – to put it another way – prevent his image being exploited after his demise. Apparently, via legal [...]

April 2, 2015 // 0 Comments

Trucking into town

From time to time, as part of a bonding process with our North American cousins and their descendants, the Stuart men-folk on both sides of the Atlantic swap suggestions for rock/pop gigs that might be worth attending. About ten years ago we in Blighty received a strong recommendation from our [...]

March 1, 2015 // 0 Comments

A night in Barnes

One of minor hazards of being a columnist for one of the great internet commercial successes of the 21st Century is that my friends and acquaintances are always badgering me for updates upon my attempts to survive in the world of modern technology. [In which context, I hope that more occasional [...]

January 20, 2015 // 0 Comments

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