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“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness”.  Maya Angelou, American author, actress, screenwriter, dancer and poet, best known for her fabulous 1969 memoir, “I know why the caged

“Mozart keeps us in touch with so many things, and one of those is optimism.” pianist Paul Lewis, CBE.  With the lockdown gradually being eased, we certainly need optimism and you can rely on Churchill Music to provide it.  Normally at

Jazz drummer and band leader, Art Blakey said, “You can’t separate modern jazz from rock or from rhythm and blues – you can’t separate it, because that’s where it all started, and that’s where it all came from – that’s where

This week’s quotation is from conductor Aleksandar Marković published 18th May 2020 in Classical Music Magazine. “….music is food for the soul.  If you look through history, human beings resist war and situations like this through the arts.  When we’re cornered, we

“Dance and sing to your music. Embrace your blessings. Make today worth remembering.” – Steve Maraboli b 1975 American radio commentator, and author.   Manuel De Falla’s Manuel De Falla’s Spanish Dance No 1 performed on the violin by David Oistrakh is sure to

Confucius believed that, ‘Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it’  – my thanks to Will Gompertz. This ‘lockdown’ has produced some wonderful opportunities to appreciate the beauty around us.  I don’t want to wax lyrical every week, but the

“Music is sunshine. Like sunshine, music is a powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change your entire mood.  Music gives us new energy and a stronger sense of purpose”. Michael Franti.  American rapper.   During this fabulous weather, I

Continuing on last week’s theme of solitude during the lockdown (and to avoid becoming ‘Mona’) this week’s quotation comes from the German poet, writer and literary critic, Heinrich Heine, whose early lyric-poetry was set to music in the form of

This week’s quotation is from Robert Browning, “He who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once”.  We are hearing ‘music’ in every sense of the word from the fabulous deeds and thoughts that have prevailed during the lockdown, through to the

The sun is shining.  It’s VE day.  As I put our flags out, I wondered if anyone could have dreamed that the next war would see the world fighting a common enemy that is so minute that we cannot even