by William Kunhardt, Principal Conductor | Mar 30, 2017 | Uncategorized
Today is a little riff on my usual theme. Nathan Milstein was one of the great musicians of the 20th Century. He was a violinist with a golden sound. One who never turned to power when elegance would solve the problem. He was a performer with a near-spiritual...
by William Kunhardt, Principal Conductor | Mar 23, 2017 | Uncategorized
I rushed out of Old Street Station, 19 years old, late as usual. Up Clerkenwell Road next, violin banging on my back, then hard right into the grounds of St Luke’s church. I spent much of my free time there, watching orchestras rehearse, studying the conductors I’d...
by William Kunhardt, Principal Conductor | Mar 16, 2017 | Uncategorized
In his brilliant book Stumbling Upon Happiness Daniel Gilbert discovers just how little we know about what makes us happy. When it comes to ‘achieving our dreams’, we’re terrible at predicting how this will make us feel. And even worse at remembering...
by William Kunhardt, Principal Conductor | Mar 9, 2017 | Uncategorized
It begins around 2 pm. The dust-baked lorries on the road to Monti Cristi – hand-rolled cigars, cotton plants, coffee beans, rice sacks – slow to a crawl. The fields of plantains and goats lining the road start to shimmer and glisten. And in the doorways...
by William Kunhardt, Principal Conductor | Mar 1, 2017 | Uncategorized
Darkness. Silence. Closeness. At the centre of the circle: eyes piercing blue, hair wiry grey, cloak fraying and lyre clutched tight. The bard. Teller of tales, conjurer of worlds. Slowly, calmly, he looks into each expectant face, wide eyes made sparkling and skin...
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