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A Little Vocal Difficulty
For me, one of the delights of producing this blog is uncertainty. I don’t know from one week to the next what I’ll be writing about. I know what my post in forty weeks’ time will concern, but apart from today’s effort, nothing in between. This is deliberate. It means that I have enormous flexibility.…
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The Ugly Game
I believe that at the time of publication, we will be on day 4 of the football World Cup. I’m sure that for those who follow it, it will simply be known as “the World Cup”. But as there have been, within the past few weeks, a women’s World Cup in rugby union, a men’s…
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If Music Be The Love Of Food …
“Music is everything and nothing. It is useless and no limit can be set on its use. Music takes me to places of illimitable sensual and insensate joy, accessing points of ecstasy that no angelic lover could ever locate, or plunging me into gibbering weeping hells of pain that no torturer could devise. Music makes…
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Can We Keep It Simple?
A few months ago, I had the pleasure of visiting Gloucester cathedral. Like so many other cathedrals, there is a cafe attached. There, the sounds of shuffling tourists, organ rehearsal, and choristers warming up, combine with the sounds of coffee being ground, machines performing Heaven knows what tasks to produce hot chocolate, and the gentle…
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