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Tag: music

10 April 2014 The Light Ships

Filming creation

Each Regular Marvel is the result of conversations, reflection and shared creativity. They only exist because of many people’s willingness

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2 March 2014 From My Life

Restless meanings

Classical music is as important as photography in Terence Davies’ elegiac film about the people and city of Liverpool in

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24 February 2014 From My Life / Winter fires

‘Every day in life is beautiful’

‘Music is in the first place of art. It brings us on an island with peace, beauty and love. Music

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20 February 2014 From My Life

Music matters

A quick post to highlight a radio programme called The Folklorist, about Izzy Young, who was central to the Greenwich Village

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16 February 2014 A Wider Horizon

Local accents

The tension between city and countryside, capital and regions, centre and periphery is ancient and probably inevitable, because of the

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2 February 2014 From My Life

A Chorus of Solidarity

‘Pete Seeger’s great work was not just singing the songs, but getting everybody else to sing them—getting his audience, us,

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11 January 2014 From My Life

The story of the story

‘What is this shit?’ The opening words of Greil Marcus’ 1970 review of Bob Dylan’s Self Portrait have become a

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1 December 2013 From My Life

The music appreciation society

Snap, crackle and pop The sky was all you could see from the music room’s high windows. Blue, grey, white,

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14 November 2013 From My Life

Making sense of music

Do you remember the first time you heard the true sound of your voice? Not the familiar sound inside your

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20 October 2013 Bread and Salt / From My Life

A gift

Yesterday evening, Kaoru Bingham gave a piano recital at Ecclesall parish church, where Sheffield edges into the Pennines. There were

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