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Jordi Savall

Breathtaking Jordi Savall at the Wigmore Hall this evening. We (all - the entire hall) left speechless and with red hands from clapping so much. Full stop.

Posted 09 May 2009 † Lola § ‡ Comments (0) °

Wedding ceremony music

This is a “timed” post: if all goes well, it will automatically appear shortly after we get married. 
I thought it would be nice to share the programme of music we’re using for our wedding — all Baroque, of course!
Arrival of the Bride
Bach: Cantata, BWV 207a, 1st Movement, March
A Welcome from the Registrar
Purcell: “Welcome to all [...]

Posted 02 May 2009 † Giles § ‡ Comments (3) °

Things I learned from Twitter search

If you search for something on Twitter, you get the option to subscribe to an RSS feed for that search term — which means that you can get alerted every time someone mentions something on Twitter.  This can be fun; here’s what I’ve learned:

Lots of people Twitter every piece of music they listen to.  I’m [...]

Posted 23 March 2009 † Giles § ‡ Comments (6) °

More links

A couple more for the sidebar:

Cellomania — Guanaco is learning the cello in ”the frozen north” of Alaska.
Neal Stephenson — we were in two minds as to whether to link to Neal… on the one hand, he introduced tens of thousands of people to our favourite period with his Baroque Cycle:  three books, each a thousand pages of blockbuster [...]

Posted 06 March 2009 † Giles § ‡ Comments (0) °