Earworms and God Save Whoever…

Earworms and God Save Whoever…

Have you ever suffered the annoyance of an ear-worm, that tune which refuses to leave your head? It seems to be connected with some sort of subconscious mechanism that feels the need to latch on to music and repeat and repeat and repeat. My ear worms often embed...

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Snore Cure

Snore Cure

In my book, I recommend singing as a solution for those anti-social noises we produce in our sleep. Here is some exciting new research supporting it https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/265011#1

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More Songs of the Sea

More Songs of the Sea

I am getting to sing Elgar's wonderfully evocative songs again. This time, with Wantage Orchestra conducted by Kentaro Machida Sunday March 12 at 7pm At the Old Mill Hall, School LaneGroveWantageOxon OX12 7LB

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Songs of the Sea

Songs of the Sea

Lunchtime concert at St Michael at the Northgate Church, Oxford, on Feb 27 at 1pm Programme Elgar's Sea Pictures (with piano accompaniment) interspersed with Joni Mitchell's River and The Hissing of Summer Lawns, plus the jazz standard Cry me a River, plus (in the...

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More Songs of the Sea

Gigs for Spring 2023

Coming up: At St Michael at the Northgate Church in Cornmarket, Oxford - Lunchtime recital with Pete McMullin at 1pm on Feb 27, was to include Ethyl Smyth's Three Moods of the Sea plus a new commission from Oxford-based, internationally-renowned composer Gregory Rose...

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The Letter

The Letter

Another outing for my radio programme from last year, about my grandfather's escape from Nazi Czechoslovakia thanks to a letter from the BBC - on sunday oct 4 and then on BBC Sounds https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0002rv6  

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