IN PRAISE OF THE POETS: Victor Fernandez Gopar
STATUE STANDS STILL AND DIGNIFIED AGAINST STORM
new statue stands proudly against the storm
Victor Fernandez Gopar often celebrated the importance of salt to this island, writing wonderful poetry about it, and many of those poems have…
IN PRAISE OF THE POETS: Laureates all
POET LAUREATE
REACHES FOR LYRICISM
Several poets
laureate of modern history have released recordings of their work, and current
holder of the post, Simon Armitage has now increased the number of their
company. None previously, though, can…
LISTEN TO STARS SPREADING RUMOURS
Whispers In The Wind
Lanzarote has so little light pollution and so much silent,
open countryside that we are afforded wonderful views of meteors and falling stars all across the constellation and,
almost on a nightly basis, are able…
CONCERTS IN CAVES AND CONVENTS
CONCERTS IN CAVES AND CONVENTS
36th Festival International Classic
Music Canarias
BEETHOVEN AT
EASE, MUSICIANS AT PLAY
Cuarteto de Cuerdo Ornati
Inglesia de San Roque, Tinajo, January
11th 2020
As genuine lovers of chamber…
SINGING IN THE CHOIR
SINGING
WITH THE CHOIR: Anne Rees
We brought you a review recently of a
performance by Lanzarote Gospel Choir (see archives) and mentioned an English
lady in the choir, called Anne Rees who charmingly agreed to sit through one of
our hugely…
MUSIC SOCIETY CELEBRATIONS by Graham Marshall
HEART AND MIND AND
FINGERTIPS
by Graham Marshall
Graham Marshall
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Rochdale Music
Society
LUKA OKROS
pianoforte
Heywood
Civic Centre 2020 review
This was the third in what is proving
to be a musically most rewarding…
MUSIC FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIVES
MUSIC
FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIVES
A Meeting Of Timples, Teatro Tias, January 2020 review
The annual La
Canderlaria and San Blas religious festival in Tias always presents a plethora
of arts that…
SONGS OF PRAISE, GOSPEL STYLE
SONGS OF PRAISE
GOSPEL STYLE !
Lanzarote
Gospel Choir, Teatro Tias, January 2020 review
My wife and I had spent the previous
hour in a wonderful new restaurant Arreyate un Millo, just around the corner
from Teatro…
a dinosaur goes into a library and says……
DINOSAUR ROAMS ROCHDALE
I
lived in what was a hot-bed of hot bed of artistic creativity in the UK for
sixty years of my life, and as an adult collaborated with other artists I much
admired to produce works that were intended to be…
CONCERTS AT THE CAMEL HOUSE
SLEEPING BEAUTY UNDER A MUCKHEAP
Kirsty Wark
How closely Lanzarote might resemble the desert island for which BBC Radio 4 castaway Sir Ernest Hall once selected his musical and literary preferences with Kirsty Walk is hard to say.…