365/365 Talented Boy by rutty is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA We are finishing off 2017 by visiting some good friends near Banbury. They have four amazing children – from 2…
Tag: music
357/365 Top 100
357/365 Top 100 by rutty is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA My favourite music magazine, Metal Hammer, have been doing a ‘Top 100 Albums of the Year’ thing for a while…
117/365 No snowman
“117/365 No snowman” by rutty is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA When did Frozen come out again? It seems eons ago, and yet the songs persist. They’re some of the catchiest…
75/365 Feroce con piu merda
I generally love how music is transcribed onto the page. The musical stave is a beautiful thing, with its notes, accents and Italian terms. Sometimes us musicians like to augment…
Oh Shit
26th January 2015 The test piece for the 2015 Regional Championships Second Section has this little bit of horror about halfway through. The composer, Kevin Norbury, no doubt had a…
Let It Go
Ruby is utterly obsessed with ‘Let It Go’ from Frozen. To be honest, so am I (just a little bit). I think it’s one of the finest, catchiest songs to…
Dave is turning
Dave is turning, originally uploaded by rutty. 59/365 This is my rehearsal copy of our Area piece: Berlioz’s La Carnaval Romain. I’ve been moved onto second cornet for this and…
Music was my first love
Music was my first love, originally uploaded by rutty. 3/365 …and it will be my last. One of those difficult-to-answer philosophical questions is something along the lines of “would you…
Links for May 19th
Unpleasant Medicine I think it’s significant that there’s no consensus on the larger-scale significance of environmental threats; indeed, our responses are severely polarized, as if these are debatable matters of…
Links for January 13th
France’s anti-piracy goon squad pirates the font in its logo Boing Boing Hapodi, the French agency that’s in charge of the country’s new anti-piracy scheme (if someone you live with…
I’m a little horny
So, Christmas is nearly here. The goose is getting fat, or at least it’s getting ready for pickup from the local farm shop. There’s no escaping it: I get to…
Links for December 14th
Cleaners ‘worth more to society’ than bankers – study Hospital cleaners are worth more to society than bankers, a study suggests. The research, carried out by think tank the New…