Music often seems to come laden with baggage. Fashion, genre, attitude – what do they have to do with the pure power of organized sound? Why are jazz, orchestral, folk and experimental music dismissed by so many as eccentric, weird and uncool? It’s rather depressing, because the answer is that music is not part of education, unless you’re lucky, and that’s why music is not often part of family life. So there’s no easy solution.
What a lamentable state of affairs! It explains why the concert by Markus Stockhausen and Tara Bouman at St. Giles Cathedral – part of the Sonic Fusion festival – was attended by just a few students and musicians probably involved with the festival, as well … read on »
Archive for May, 2006…
Glencoe Walk: Buachaille Etive Beag
Yesterday Stu and I went up Buachaille Etive Beag, the little herdsman of Etive. It’s a ridge parallel to its big brother, Buachaille Etive Mor, but lacks that mountain’s grandeur and the stirring aspect when seen from Rannoch Moor, which I snapped with difficulty from the speeding car:
Remarkable to see the mountains like this when our last climb was mainly on deep snow and hard ice. I’ve been wanting to go to Glencoe for months now and when I got out of the car at the car park I was exhilarated to be there. I took a few photos while a cuckoo cuckooed. There wasn’t much of a view of our mountain, mainly a convex rounded lump looming above, but … read on »
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