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Monthly Archives: January 2011

Free concerts are a BAD idea

Yesterday evening we jumped on our Villo! bikes and headed for Flagey for the attractive sounding concert ‘Au son de soi’.   It was a wee bit cold, but we were motivated and well wrapped up.  Ok, so the first Villo! stand we came to at Flagey was already full of bikes; no problem, we cycled […]

Concert tomorrow

Oops, I can’t read my own writing.  The concert at Flagey, Studio 1 on Saturday night begins at 20:15 NOT 20:35 as I wrote in my previous blog.  By the way, it’s free!

Concert recommendation for this week

Introspective, contemplative, contemporary chamber music by Henryk Gorecki in Flagey, Studio 1 at 20:35 on Saturday 29th. See you there!

What’s On blogs

Sadly I won’t be able to continue with my ‘What’s On in Brussels’ blogs on a regular basis.  I hope still to be able to flag up concerts that are ‘not-to-be-missed’, but my regular weekly is not possible for the moment.  Sorry.

Music makes you feel good…

It’s official! A new study from the McGill University in Montreal has shown that we produce dopamine while listening to good music.  Apparently, even the expectation of a good  listen can be enough to produce the dopamine. Dopamine is our all-natural pleasure drug, released by the adrenal glands when we indulge in certain activities (sex, […]