Bach to Eternity A review from Hastings Online Times Victoria Kingham saw a wondrous programme of music from baroque to modern, at Christ Church St Leonards this week, featuring two top talents: violinist Max Baillie and conductor Marcio da Silva. Honestly, I wasn’t going to write about this one. For once I went to the concert…
Kora master meets violin virtuoso A review from Hastings Online Times Coinciding with the release of his debut album Kanéfonyo (Never Give Up) Gambian kora player Suntou Susso is touring the UK this year in various (mostly folk-oriented) venues. One of the earliest of his shows was a concert in St John’s Church, St Leonards on 26…
Love, Mania, Transfiguration Victoria Kingham on the St Leonards Concerts Weekender in Hastings Independent Press Once more, it has to be said that down here in a small area of St Leonards and Hastings we are privileged to hear the most gifted of musicians. They are certainly attracted here by the exceptional Max Baillie, whose…
Erik, Olav, and Max Show the Way Forward Victoria Kingham in Hastings Independent Press meditates on the Lodestar Trio at Christ Church St Leonards The Lodestar – guiding light, inspiration, Pole Star. The word is from Middle English. Middle English was strongly related to Old Norse. Old Norse was spoken by Vikings. Vikings inhabited Scandinavia…
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Erik, Olav, and Max Show the Way Forward TOM BLASS in Hastings Independent Press on the Cable Street Rag Band Jazz is a funny world. It has its deities of course: Coltrane, Miles, Bird, Monk, Billie and Ella et al, towering above mere mortals from their Olympian heights. Below that exalted circle is a denominational…
