by Malcolm Pullan | Mar 28, 2011 | Bach, Classical Composers, Classical Music, Country, Live Music
Can you believe it? This is what a four-year old said to his mother after going to a concert of classical music! His name is Joe and he has two brothers. This is what they said about the same concert: “I really enjoyed the concert. It was amazing to see a big...
by Malcolm Pullan | Dec 10, 2010 | Baroque, Classical Music, Live Music, Uncategorized
That’s what a 9-year old girl wrote in her diary on Sunday after going to her first ever concert of classical music. And her mother told me afterwards that her daughter had been “quite overwhelmed by the experience”. You might think from this that...
by Malcolm Pullan | Nov 11, 2010 | Classical Music, Live Music
The CBSO have done it again! Last Sunday they performed another children’s concert to a packed hall (see How Would You Like to Drive a World Class Racing Car? for an article about the previous one). And the music this time was out of this world! I know, I...
by Malcolm Pullan | Nov 1, 2010 | Classical Composers, Classical Music, Country, Live Music, Modern, Russia, Shostakovich
It was Halloween last night. And last night I watched a bunch of kids dressed in black scare me witless. These kids didn’t just scare me—they terrified me! I’m not kidding. I was really really scared. And the kids didn’t even say a single...
by Malcolm Pullan | Sep 29, 2010 | Classical Composers, Classical Music, General, Mahler, Opera, Wagner
Have you ever noticed how much music we hear nowadays? It’s everywhere—in shops, in restaurants, in the ads on TV, in computer games… You can’t get away from music. Yet because there is so much music around, people are turning off. They...
by Malcolm Pullan | May 19, 2010 | Britten, Classical Composers, Classical Music, Live Music
Well? Would you? I know I would. Unfortunately I never have. But on Sunday I saw a ten-year old do just that! She stepped up nervously into the driving seat. And after a grown-up started her off, there was no turning back—off she roared!!! It was amazing. A...
