Category Archives: on the Web

Laysplaining

Given my interests shown here, it’s won’t come as a surprise that I follow various church and choral music groups on Facebook. I had to give up one when my feed filled up with (rather bad) hymns with words and … Continue reading

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classical music on YouTube

From time to time it’s recommended that I get to learn a particular piece by watching a video of it in performance on YouTube. I’ve tried this but it doesn’t really work for me, for various reasons. One is that … Continue reading

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Facebook events

I have recently set up my next performance as a Facebook event. It’s the Grande Messe des Morts by Berlioz in Colston Hall, Bristol, on Saturday February 13th at 7.30 p.m., performed by the South West Festival Chorus and Birmingham … Continue reading

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the 4 part music forum

This has been set up recently by someone I know who runs an on-location recording company, 4 Part Music. He’s keen for people to try it out and to build up a user base. The main subject areas are recording … Continue reading

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the Erleigh Cantors on YouTube

If I’d known I’d have worn more jewellery – we were videoed and recorded today for the RG4 section of www.aboutmyarea.co.uk. The video is on YouTube here. This isn’t one of those YouTube videos where something goes unexpectedly wrong or … Continue reading

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Medici Arts TV

I have been looking at – and listening to – their website here: http://www.medici-arts.tv/ At any given time there is one concert which you can both view and listen to. So far the calibre of performances (in the musical sense) … Continue reading

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Composers’ political compass

I’ve had my attention drawn to this page on the Political Compass website. It is, as they say, ‘largely for amusement’. I’m not sure they really have Elgar right – I think his position is derived from judgements based on … Continue reading

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Listen Again

Been listening quite a lot to old Radio 3 broadcasts on this recently. I like Mahler 1 and Tchaikovsky symphonies, but I think the ‘archived online audio’ choices are looking a little old. Can we have some more recent ones? … Continue reading

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technorati.com

At the moment, this blog gets a steady 20 visits or so per day with something over a quarter being return visits by people who’ve been before. But my rating on Technorati remains very low (today at 2,763,168) because no … Continue reading

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on the move again

The server this lives on is being shut down and I’ll have to move it to another one. There may be a period when it’s offline. If I can post the new URL before shutdown I will and I’ll email … Continue reading

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