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 […]
Monthly Archives: January 2008
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 […]
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 […]
