As those of you who also receive mailings from my Salon’s blog will know, I was asked some months ago if I could help to arrange some chamber music concerts for the Highgate Festival in June. Since the festival starts on the 19th June and all COVID restrictions on live performances are scheduled to be …
Music
And yet more music on the heath….
I headed home yesterday afternoon through the wood to a chorus – no a cacophony – of parakeets and crows. I am sure someone will berate me for being unappreciative but, oh where are the tuneful trills of spring?… Anyhow, emerging from the woods I thought I heard someone singing in the distance, so I …
Live at the log
Walking back across the heath this evening checking the storm casualties of the last few days (of which more anon), I found myself following a guy lugging double bass…. Really? But a little further on I discovered where he had been going. To join a small group of jazz musicians who, for the last month, …
Some musical relief
Just launched…. Check in to Livingroom-live.com at 6pm and you will be able to watch and listen to George Fu and Tamsin Waley-Cohen playing Mozart’s Violin Sonata in E minor, K. 304 live from George’s living room. (Well, I am assuming it is his living room, as it looks like his grand piano!) Another of …
‘Les Salons’
You may remember that back in June we held a Salon Musicale at Lawn Road with violinist Madeleine Mitchell and her quintet – and lots of good food! Well, you will be glad to hear that it was not just a one off. Indeed we have held two further evenings since then and have two …
Lovely people in the Cotswolds…
A few weeks ago I took myself to Longborough Opera Festival, in the heart of the Costwolds. Perched on the top of a hill overlooking a rolling green valley sits ‘the big house’ – neo classical terra cotta and creamy Cotswold stone. Across a generous courtyard and behind some trees nestles a dinner tent and …