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Tag Archives: Exeter College Oxford

Accelerando

June 11, 2014

It has been a late start to the day, for I dropped by the fizz shop on the way home …

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Launch

April 7, 2014

It has been one of those busy weeks, the focal point of various efforts since the start of the year.  …

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Tentative

March 28, 2014

In the seven days since my last post there have been all sorts of interesting emails passing back and forth.  …

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Still here

October 10, 2013

It has been a long time since I last posted, probably my longest silence ever on the blogosphere, but, ironically, …

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Fun?

August 9, 2013

A young and respected composer once said that writing music was, for him, like a holiday.  I often wish that …

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The other side of the fence

August 5, 2013

Our performance of Messiah at the Bristol Old Vic on Saturday evening was a real success.  People (one person, if …

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Before the calm

July 21, 2013

The swallows cartwheeled in the sky, the huge audience waited expectantly in the square, many standing, Mozart’s final symphony fizzed …

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A plague of…

July 18, 2013

Every now and again one encounters something unexpected in a performance.  I have been introduced as Neil O’Reilly, struck by …

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Dosed up

July 16, 2013

It being the hottest spell of the year I have, of course, come down with a stinking cold.  I cancelled …

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Nothing in it

July 10, 2013

I was at my desk early again today, translating some introductions for the Anghiari Festival and attempting to put other …

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