Music from Caius LP: text and notes part 1
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This page includes the text, and a scan of the cover, of the 16-page booklet from the 1985 LP 'Music from Caius'
[...Read More]This page includes the text, and a scan of the cover, of the 16-page booklet from the 1985 LP 'Music from Caius'
[...Read More]Speculation by PAT in characteristic manner on the origins of the ‘Humpty Dumpty’ and ‘Sing a Song of Sixpence’ nursery rhymes leads him to consideration of composers being unconsciously influenced by half-remembered tunes – their own or others’ – in a process of ‘seepage’. Very much in the style of similar articles written for the Cambridge Review in the 1950s, and covering in part the same ground as ‘The Truth About Tunes’ published there on 4 June 1955, this is the sole example of the genre to be published in the Caian and perhaps the last that he wrote.
[...Read More]Jottings of a Domestic Bursar was written while Peter Tranchell was Domestic Bursar and Keeper of the College Courts and Gardens 1962-1966.
[...Read More]Is the piano dying out, and if not, why not? These questions reverberate about the occiput of any thinking person...
[...Read More]Integrity, awareness and a sense of values, as Saint Beachcomber says, are nowadays to be looked for in all branches [...Read More]
Music is an international language; or so we are told. Harmony in the ears makes harmony in the heart and [...Read More]
PAT responds vigorously to a claim that there were too many ‘private enterprise’ concerts of dubious quality in Cambridge.
[...Read More]PAT finds programme notes often more of a hindrance than a help when appreciating a concert: ‘programme-notes in their pestilential variety, their pestilential condescension and pestilential distraction can only be regarded as pestilential.’
[...Read More]PAT wonders whether some composers’ disabilities might have been feigned...
[...Read More]PAT travelled with a party from King’s as chorus master for a very successful performance of the Provost’s translation of ‘Cyclops’ with music by A H Mann.
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