The Bard of Tysoe: Gershwin

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Thursday, 1 February 2018

I knew our music would allure him…

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Sometime during last weekend, I came downstairs to find The Good Lady Bard transfixed by a recording of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue on Cl...

Thursday, 13 July 2017

That band who so vauntingly swore…

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I wrote (almost exactly twenty-four hours ago – although the two days cushioning this period have somehow become concatenated; or even coal...

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Tuesday, 11 July 2017

In full glory reflected now shines in the stream…

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The first thing that would have struck you on entering Stratford ArtsHouse, last night , was that there were a lot more chairs laid out fo...

Sunday, 30 April 2017

O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave…

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You have to have a lot of faith in an orchestra to open proceedings with something as challenging as Copland’s Appalachian Spring suite. Th...

Sunday, 15 January 2017

Hexachordum Apollinis…

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I think the word I was looking for was bliss … – although any of its synonyms would probably have sufficed: ecstasy, euphoria, rapture, joy...

Thursday, 29 September 2016

And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents…

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When the oracle (Thus by Apollo’s great divine seal’d up) Shall the contents discover, some...

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The Bard of Tysoe: Copeland, Cumbria, United Kingdom; Originally an amateur musician… — yet having worked in IT and marketing communication for a quarter of a century — both as manager and consultant; as well as writing for the Guardian… — the Bard retired for medical reasons; and now devotes his life to keeping as healthy as possible by putting one foot in front of another (badly, but semi-frequently); watching the world, with all its vagaries, go by (in great puzzlement); capturing what he sees (in words and pictures); and trying to leave a trail of happiness in his wake. What matters most to him are beauty, truth, cats, and fairness — in whatever myriad forms they occur — and he despises inequality, greed, fascists, and hate. His favourite occupation is thinking; and he was (therefore) — for a handful of years — the Orchestra of the Swan’s ‘writer in reticence’. You are now, though, most likely to encounter him staring into space, with a thoughtful grin beneath his wonted hat and dark glasses, walking stick in hand, somewhere in the quieter parts of the Northern, North Western, and Western Fells of Lakeland. (He resembles nothing so much as a badly-dressed Herdwick.)

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