After Mosaic Summer School this August, I am teaching a five-day course: ‘Marble and Smalti with the Hammer and Hardy.’ The course runs in March too, if anyone thinks they might be interested. Both are at West Dean College, an impressive flint-faced country house in the Sussex downs. Twenty-three years ago I was one of [...]
Up late last night talking to Harvey, as Sonia worked downstairs. We compared recordings of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. I recently bought the Susan Graham version, very rich and operatic in comparison with the more familiar Emma Kirkby one. Harvey played Purcell songs, performed by Drew Minter. ‘Some people think he overdoes the intensity, but [...]
It is 2.30 in the afternoon, and I am exhausted. I didn’t sleep at all well last night, and neither did Matt. He is a little tense. Throughout the night something would wake him and he would demand ‘ What are you doing? You’re blogging again. Stop blogging.’ I would reassure him that I wasn’t [...]