These days, in the world of education and in corners where therapeutic solutions of one sort or another are discussed, there is much talk about the effects of nature and nurture as well as the effect of socio-economic advantages, or…
Continue reading →This June 9 will mark the 111th anniversary of the meeting, in England in 1910, between former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt and British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey. Roosevelt had travelled to England to attend the funeral of Edward VII….
Continue reading →In July 1969 I was still playing in the Hallé Orchestra, but had recently done a trial in two Proms with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and was due to leave the Hallé after seven years – at the end of…
Continue reading →In this enforced lockdown my thoughts have been recently turning to events, some happier than others, that have shaped my life. Events and people have come to mind and then wandered off, but two strands around which the rest have…
Continue reading →This is taken from a talk I gave at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama When are lectures and ‘talks’ useful? When students recognise something useful in them that they can learn. When they make students determine to…
Continue reading →No doubt the psychologists will, one day, describe in detail why one young person will take up what was once called the French Horn – no doubt because of this country’s proximity to Calais, which of course we used to…
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