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Creation-ism

Wednesday, April 18, 2018

This weekend I will be joining a local choral society for their performance of Haydn’s The Creation – and what better way to welcome Spring now that it’s finally arrived. An avowed and much-loved masterpiece from its earliest performances – Vienna, 1798 – ‘whose appeal [I read from A Peter Brown’s DECCA sleeve-notes] was irresistible […]

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Paths less travelled by

Monday, March 22, 2010

(Unexpurgated) review of the Chamber Music Society of Colombo’s Troubled Seas and Forest Paths concert I appreciate it must be tiresome – not to say slightly unnerving – listening to middle-aged boffins frotting over high-grade music, and that it’s not much better when the middle-aged boffins are actually in their 20s. But what to do? […]

Filed in Journalism, review | Also tagged Chamber Music Society of Colombo, Handel, Hindemith, Mary Anne David, Mozart, music, rugby, Stephen Allen, Sunday Times (SL), violas, Vivaldi | Comments (4)

From Mendelssohn minor to Ursa Major

Sunday, December 6, 2009

The CMSC Bicentennial Concert 2009, reviewed.

Filed in Journalism, review | Also tagged Chamber Music Society of Colombo, Handel, Hercules, Mendelssohn, music | Comments (0)