Specs

English National Opera - or ENO - has now come to the end of its 'main' 2016/2017 season at the Coliseum. What with all of its widel...

As regular readers (thank you, darlings, thank you) will know, there are certain artists I try to champion whenever possible on this blog. A...

I realise that I'm very lucky to be able to say this - but I've enjoyed a run of activity lately which, once you factor in all the o...

Something new for the Specs blog, I think - I've just discovered* (*made up) a completely new branch of aural science: one can but hope ...

At the Music into Words conference a week ago, I had the pleasure of meeting and listening to some brilliant people, speaking about our shar...

Yesterday (Sunday 12 February), I had a fantastic time taking part in the second 'Music into Words' conference - focusing on writing...

Writing up a recent gig at the Barbican... * To begin with, the programme was really enticing - bringing together three composers coveri...