Roll over Beethoven
My old amplifier blew up, and as a result I’ve been making some surprising discoveries. I turned it on one Sunday morning to use my record deck and smelled burning. Closer inspection discovered smoke drifting…
Till the trumpets crack – going beyond
In the second movement of Beethoven’s masterful symphony the ‘Eroica’ the music takes the form of a funeral march, building to a dramatic climax where the two trumpets have to play an almost impossible phrase.…