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“All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.” – Frank Zappa

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

The 2008 Olympic Games’ Opening Ceremony has been and gone – my favourite part would have to be the appearance of the Microsoft Windows’ “blue screen of death” instead of one of the projected images just before the lighting of the cauldron – absolute artistic brilliance there from Microsoft :P Following this, I welcomed some [...]


“There is two kinds of music, the good and bad. I play the good kind.” – Louis Armstrong

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

Where to start! I have been here conducting in Siena for over a fortnight and still haven’t written anything! Now is the first time I have had even a couple of minutes to write :P At the same time as the International Music Festival here in Siena is the International Jazz Festival and last week [...]