I just saw Alan Rickman at the Oxford Union and he was as lovely and charming as I'd envisaged. He answered questions from the floor and littered his responses with anecdotes. He said that my favourite line from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (see subject line) was in fact not in the original script but the creation of some of his friends and ( Read more... )

So I'm playing the fiddle again. Why is it that almost everything in my so-called "repetoire" is pre-1750? I generally prefer romantic or modern pieces but almost everything I can play with anywhere near approaching conviction is Baroque. And I just reminded myself that I hate Handel for every conceiving of the idea of The Arrival of the Queen of ( Read more... )

Comedy moment du jour: during the fifth hernia operation of the day an advert comes on Classic FM...

"Do you know that hernia operations are one of the most commonly performed operations in the UK? Blah, blah, blah if you think you have a hernia go see your GP."

And I discovered today that I know more about music than I do about medicine. I was red ( Read more... )