Music for special moments
Sad but true: I listen to music less often than I did when I was younger. This may partly be the result of having to put up with a certain amount of noise at work –…
Feeling Gleeful
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Music to My Ears
One of my favourite guilty pleasures is a set of gentle romances from the 60s and 70s by Iris Bromige. Her heroines are gentle, firm and optimistic, her heroes are domineering and loving, and the couples…
Life's Soundtrack
I tend to associate particular songs or soundtracks to special moments in my life. Most of the associations are purely volumetric – I mean, if you listen to something at least twice a day, then it’s…
With a little head-banging…
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The Most Exclusive Piano in the World
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v3d6SFcDys Steinways may be the most well-known pianos in the world. But Faziolis are probably the most exclusive. They’re family-owned. They’re entirely individually hand-crafted, by request, in a tiny village northeast of Venice. They make both classic…