Once upon a time passengers on commercial airlines were offered a choice of magazines. You were asked to leave them on the plane but in May 1983 on a Pan Am flight from Bombay to London when I was unable to finish an article, What...
[Continued from Part 3] St Petersburg Andrei’s apartment was comfortable and spacious with room for his studio. His artistic style might be described as Post-Impressionist and there are echoes of Gauguin and Cézanne as this photo from my brother’s gallery shows. Andrei considers himself Siberian and spent...
Friday afternoon’s lecture at the Australian Festival of Chamber Music has stayed with me more than most. Professors David McAlpine and Chi Lo from Macquarie University - both leading researchers into hearing loss and auditory neuroscience - spoke about music and the listening brain. It...
At a morning concert during the Australian Festival of Chamber Music, The Death of Juliet - Prokofiev’s final scene from Romeo and Juliet, arranged for viola and piano by Vadim Borisovsky - was performed with great poise by Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt and Joseph Havlat....