Accelerando
It has been a late start to the day, for I dropped by the fizz shop on the way home …
Tag Archives: Exeter College Oxford
Launch
It has been one of those busy weeks, the focal point of various efforts since the start of the year. …
Tentative
In the seven days since my last post there have been all sorts of interesting emails passing back and forth. …
Still here
It has been a long time since I last posted, probably my longest silence ever on the blogosphere, but, ironically, …
Fun?
A young and respected composer once said that writing music was, for him, like a holiday. I often wish that …
The other side of the fence
Our performance of Messiah at the Bristol Old Vic on Saturday evening was a real success. People (one person, if …
Before the calm
The swallows cartwheeled in the sky, the huge audience waited expectantly in the square, many standing, Mozart’s final symphony fizzed …
A plague of…
Every now and again one encounters something unexpected in a performance. I have been introduced as Neil O’Reilly, struck by …
Dosed up
It being the hottest spell of the year I have, of course, come down with a stinking cold. I cancelled …
Nothing in it
I was at my desk early again today, translating some introductions for the Anghiari Festival and attempting to put other …
