Something that I never anticipated happening when I started The Journal of Music in Ireland was that my playing identity would become subsumed by it. Before I wrote, I played, but when I began writing about music, when the phone would ring, suddenly it was to ask me to write about a concert rather than play at it. I began to suspect that, subconsciously, I had done this to myself.
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The Most Mod Con
At a certain point in the 1980s, in the BBC Four television programme Electric Dreams, the piano in the front room disappeared. No explanation. No comment. Some people may find that hard to accept. I know I do.
The series, broadcast in autumn, explored how technological developments transformed British homes in the Continue reading
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