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It is great to be in touch again!  Thank you so much for your patience and to all who so kindly responded to our recent Survey.  It has given us a clearer picture of your wishes and feelings which are

It’s out with the crystal balls to try to predict the immediate future, so living in the present, I am drawn to that great Lebanese philosopher, Khalil Gibran for this month’s ‘food for thought’.  “The appearance of things changes according

We are living in strange, unsettling and somewhat confusing times so I look to my Inspiration Guru, Maya Angelou for advice, “What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it.  If you can’t change it,

The rain and warmer nights has made the gardens and hedgerows suddenly ‘take off’!  As we very carefully creep out of the major locked-down state, it is even more noticeable just how much natural beauty there is all around us

“Rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul” – Plato.  This week we have a terrific new opportunity to put a plethora of rhythm and harmony into the inward places of our souls.  (This blog was

“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