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A charming obituary from the Eccleston Sq Newsletter .

  Musicians Church St Sepulchre Holbein 29th April 2014 Book of Remembrance listing John Amis

A article written Spring 2010, The Organ , No 351, by John Amis in 2010 on his friend Dame Gillian Weir 1965 - the First Night of the Pr...

Posted on April 23, 2013 by Jon Jacob  ; http://www.thoroughlygood.me/2013/04/23/john-amis-talks-about-benjamin-britten-at-orpington-recor...

Pianist whose marriages made her a public figure   This piece was written by John Amis. Recently published in the Guardian 2014, http:/...

Next Meeting, 21 February … A New Yorker abroad .   Andrew Litton , Principal Conductor of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Director o...

Dear Friends I really appreciate all the warm, caring and loving messages I have received in the past week. Many of you have asked for d...

London, Friday August 2nd Dear Friends. Darling John died peacefully last night at the Chelsea and Westminster – I was with him at the t...

'Damn braces: Bless relaxes' William Blake Goethe's Faust gripped the imagination of the civilised world. Hector Berlio...

This season is Vladimir Jurowski's thirteenth and last season as Music Director at Glyndebourne. If he is sad to go it is nothing to...

With my Oldie came an offer of an eight day trip around S.E. Turkey for a derisory sum that included fares, hotel accommodation, guide but...

Both books are entitled: BENJAMIN BRITTEN. Paul Kildea's is sub-titled A Life in the Twentieth Century, published by Allen Lane, 666p, £...

A Modern Master A cellist sits down and begins to play, not a tune but a pulse, steady, as if going for a walk (orchestra tacet). Sol...

A Cardboard Turkey? Opera houses feel, quite rightly, that they are in duty bound to mount new works; if they didn't they would n...

Down-Dating in Art Literally Zeitgeist means 'time-ghost' but it has come to signify the expression of a period of time. Art...

In the depths of the Hampshire countryside is a wapping great barn with a V-shaped roof, partly brick-walled. It seats about two hundred, ...

Bernstein in Clink Just beyond Devizes in Wiltshire there was a sign with the word OPERA written large. This targeted the venue of a ...

A Cracking Good Concert The playing of student and youth orchestras took a vast step forward when advisers and administrators realised ...

Swiss Pianist Good pianist, interesting programme. Swiss, daughter of veteran pianist. Peter Lukas-Graf. Venue, Swiss Church in Endel...

One of the pleasures of being a critic is that you sometimes spot a tremendous talent before it becomes known to the public at large: in my ...