Regarding Somervell's 'A Shropshire Lad', I unforgiveably forgot Sir Bryn Terfel's splendid version on his 'Silent Noon' CD - so let's say he and James Newby have equal first recommendation status...
My previous Blog concerned tenor singing son Sam (Herman-Wilson). The day after his concert with ‘Cantus’ he was a part of a substantial party who travelled to Glyndebourne to witness his brother Hugo
My wife and I have just spent an extremely high octane week-end listening to our two singing sons. The circumstances of their separate performances were very different, and I shall record my reactions
The life of an English teacher is generally not much like that of the eponymous hero of ‘Goodbye Mr. Chips’, or of Hector in Alan Bennett’s ‘The History Boys’, still less like that of John Keating in
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