Nordoff Robbins music therapists are skilled practitioners. They are trained to help people in need to build communication and other core skills. We work with people of all ages – babies, children, adults, those nearing the end of their lives; everyone can be reached through music. No one course of music therapy is the same, […]
Month: January 2022
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More than one piece of headily romantic music was inspired by Richard Dehmel’s 1896 poem Verklärte Nacht, or Transfigured Night. The most familiar remains Schoenberg’s string masterpiece, first conceived as a sextet in 1899, reworked for string orchestra nearly two decades later and rarely very far from its composer’s mind for the rest of his […]
This Blue Oyster Cult live radio broadcast, from Sherman Oaks’ 1,000-capacity Reseda Country Club, was sponsored by Los Angeles’ top hard rock FM station, KMET – aka ‘The Mighty Met’. Although BOC had recently completed an extensive 60-plus date nationwide tour, this one-off gig was without a support, and all tickets were given away free […]
With her raw, anguished voice, Joplin – who would have been 75 this month – was a hippy icon. But on Piece of My Heart she became something darker still Continues HERE
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Yusuf Islam has reconciled himself to his work as Cat Stevens, to his fans’ relief, says Patrick Smith Please click HERE to continue
Previously published: Martin Chilton writes: Randy Newman is touring the UK this month and has a new album out next year. In additional extracts from a recent interview with the 71-year-old Oscar-winning songwriter, Martin Chilton presents 10 answers to questions about music. Please click HERE to continue
Jimmy Page: the defining figure of a thousand heavy metal tropes, pioneer of stage and studio and the visionary who conjured rock’s greatest ever album sequence. What’s more, he’s been his own archivist since the day he first picked up a guitar. From the creation of Led Zeppelin’s modern mythology to the true story of […]
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The Basement Tapes have never before been heard in their entirety. Now, with the official release of all 138 songs, Dylan expert Clinton Heylin examines the myth and the reality of one of rock’s seminal long-lost masterpieces. In June 1975, between Blood on the Tracks and Desire, Bob Dylan approved the release of the most […]
Audiophiles are notorious for embracing dated technologies, but their latest move might leave some wondering if they’ve lost their marbles. Incredibly, the audio world is seeing the resurgence of a product that declined decades ago and practically disappeared from the market around the early 2000s: the reel-to-reel tape deck. Forty years ago, a reel-to-reel deck […]
The jazz crooner on partying with Dean Martin, meeting 10 US presidents, and why Charlie Parker made him puke Continues HERE
We wouldn’t need laws if everyone did the right thing. Unfortunately, people justify all kinds of behavior that’s socially unacceptable: greed, selfishness, every-man-for-himself, self-aggrandizing at the expense of others. We make laws and rules to even the playing field—then those same people spend their days figuring out how to work around them. An endless circular battle that benefits […]
Liisa Henriksson-Macaulay writes as follows: Children who learn music from a young age find it easier to learn languages even in adulthood, research has found. Today’s economic environment demands that our children become the very best they can be. A lot of demands are placed upon us as parents, and whether we like it or […]
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Anyone choosing the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s new recording of Verklärte Nacht (Chandos), conducted by Edward Gardner, will get a subtle and urgent account of Schoenberg’s early work for string sextet, in the composer’s orchestral version. This imaginative album of Austro-German late Romanticism also acts as a showcase for the Australian tenor Stuart Skelton. He is […]
Bryan Ferry premieres his new music video for Loop De Li on Telegraph.co.uk Catherine Gee writes: It may be 43 years since glittery cool kids Roxy Music exploded on to the British music scene but singer Bryan Ferry remains as prolific as ever. The 69 year-old is soon to release his 14th solo album, Avonmore, […]
