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Finding the “Essence of Bach”
How a lifelong love of Bach led this pianist to transcribe the complete solo cello suites “Bach first became my beacon when I was about 10 years old. I remember sneaking a peek at my piano teacher’s notebook and seeing
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My Journey Through Classical Music
I have to say, it is rather uncommon for people of my age to be classical music aficionados. I was not born into a musical family and neither of my parents learnt classical music. There wasn’t much music in my
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When Music May Not Be Your “First” Profession
At the risk of sounded clichéd, the coronavirus pandemic has thrown into sharp focus the precarious nature of most professional musicians’ lives. With concert and opera venues closed – and only now beginning to reopen cautiously – many musicians are
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A Digital Cultural Life
Can you experience cultural enrichment in a virtual world? Another way of looking at this question is if our foremost experience of culture had always been gleaned digitally, would it be a lesser one? COVID-19 has vastly changed our cultural
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There’s No “Quick Fix” to Learning to Play an Instrument
The internet is full of articles promising to help you learn to play an instrument: – Learn to play in just 4 weeks!– Play piano in 10 easy steps– 5 ways to become a great pianist As one of my
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The World at Your Door: VirtuMasterClass
The COVID-19 Pandemic closed everything around the world from your office to your favourite restaurant to your favourite concert halls and then, slowly, we figured out how to Zoom, the wonders of online ordering and delivery, and the concerts that
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On My Music Desk……
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor – ‘Deep River’
Deep river, my home is over Jordan; Deep river, Lord, I want to cross over into campground.Oh don’t you want to go to that gospel feast, that Promised Land where all is peace?Deep river, Lord, I want to cross over
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Eric Lu at Wigmore Hall
10 October 2020: Schubert This concert will be live streamed on the Wigmore Hall website in HD, and all concerts in the Autumn Series will be available on demand for 30 days after the date of the concert. This generous
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