Orchestral Organiser of the Musicians’ Union, Bill Kerr, appears in today’s Guardian recalling some memorable and “regrettable” instances of orchestral musicians getting so drunk they cannot play properly. Amongst a few anecdotes about legless brass sections, drunk percussions toppling from the stage etc etc he offered this analysis: For musicians there can be so much [...]
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Drunk Musicians >> Rubbish Music
Posted in Sturm on February 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Trouble with Trimble – What’s a Geek, Really? – How the ‘Thinking Man’ likes his Crumpet – “Burn the Witch!”
Posted in Sturm, tagged corpus christi, gail trimble, trimble, university challenge on February 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The muse is dead. She’s not invoked, she’s not described, she’s not wooed, dreamt about or pined after. Her now-meaningless name is a relic of the time of the author, and we don’t have authors any more, or at least we don’t celebrate them; we celebrate film studios and television companies and ‘creative democracies’ like [...]
