The 11 Most Annoying Types of Pianists
I LOLed hugely at this. Especially the “show-off”, the “overpassionate” and “too many facial expressions”
Category: play
“Tetris” theme played on organ of St Joseph’s Church, Glasthule by Rónán Murray
The title says it all….though the piece is more properly called Korobeiniki
The man who rode zebras: Lionel Walter Rothschild
Here’s an extraordinary character, Lionel Walter Rothschildfrom the Nigeness blog a few years back: Lately I’ve been browsing in the biographies [of The Aurelian Legacy: British Butterflies and Their Collectors]…
“Léim isteach sa ngluaistean / Níl deifir orainn a bheith ann / Lig do scíth go hiomlán” = “I’ll be riding shotgun / Underneath the warm sun / Feeling like a someone”
So here’s George Ezra’s megahit Shotgun in an as gaeilge version: zzx] Literal translation of chorus: “Jump Into the Car / We’re in no hurry / Take it easy,…
Arthur Benjamin speed calculation video
I’m not an almighty fan of TED talks, which can reek of solutionism and can privilege a certain slick, clickbait-y style of communicating in which sleekly presented ideas drown out less sexy…
For Armistice Day: Franz Marc RIP
It is of course one hundred years exactly since the end of World War I – the “War To End All Wars”, which turned out to be false advertising. A…
A family holiday with David Mamet
David Mamet’s reputation seems to have taken a bit of a nosedive in recent years. His “coming out” as an unapologetic free market conservative may have something to do with…
A 8½ mile putt
From “Golf’s Strangest Rounds: Extraordinary but True stories from over a Century of Golf” by Andrew Ward “A RECORD PUTT ABOVE THE ATLANTIC OCEAN, SEPTEMBER 1997 If a golfer…
Séamus Sweeney 