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Monthly Archives: January 2008

Let the whole school sing!

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Last Monday evening the Sainte-Marie primary school of St Gilles, Brussels, put on a concert involving the whole school.  It was a wonderful turn out, and the pupils did themselves proud.  What a success : bravo à tous! The concert was the culmination of phase I of an educative project set up by ReMuA : Etoiles [...]

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Hildegard Von Bingen

Friday, January 18, 2008

Oddly, until the beginning of this year, I had not performed any of the works of Hildegard Von Bingen.  Now, finally, I have been given the excuse I needed to catch up on this incredible medieval figure, who, to my astonishment, is not even mentioned in many standard History of Music text books.  My thanks go [...]

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Rubens Exhibition

Saturday, January 12, 2008

On Wednesday I paid a visit to the Rubens exhibition at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Belgium.  Rubens, perhaps the best known of all Flemish Painters, lived from 1577 to 1640.  He was a hugely talented portrait painter.  His studies, for example of an old man used in ‘Christ and the Adulterous Woman’, and of a moor used [...]

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