Along with my passion for early music is an enjoyment and love of music written for the violencello. Often shortened to Cello. I would ride through storm and tempest to attend performances by Steven Isserlis and Peter Wispelway or the acclaimed 2Cellos, Croatian musicians Luke Sulic and Stjepan Hauser.

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A book for everyone for Christmas is surely the way to go. And, if you read it aloud to children you can be sure that you are providing many benefits, including sharing the joy around.

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Professor Bruce Boucher’s scholarly and accessible work, Andrea Palladio, The Architect in his Time was first published in 1994  in a ‘user friendly version’…to fit comfortably into a suitcase or backpack for a quick trip to Vicenza, the scene of many of Palladio’s triumphant works in architecture. Don’t know about you but I have always [...]

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I must confess to being one of those people who reads books after they have passed their current popularity phase and, often on a plane.  It has never been intentional, but about finding time and in some cases, having missed it when it was about. Whatever the reason in a lot of ways it has [...]

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