Plurable

The pianist Hélène Grimaud has just released a new record called Memory.  There is a trend for classical musicians to make concept albums: Grimaud’s last

The music of Franz Liszt bridges the romantics, the impressionists, and the moderns. The three books of Liszt’s Annees De Pelerinage document his wide travels. The first

A few years ago I finally grasped what mindfulness is all about.  Let me explain briefly. There are two distinctly different modes of perception.  One

Around WW1 classical music hit a tipping point.  It shifted from the sensual to the abstract and gradually lost its audience. So what happened? Music is

In 1997 the futurist Stan Davis wrote a cracking article for Forbes Magazine called: What is your emotional bandwidth? As the costs of storing and