Mad Blood Stirring Image: Romeo and Juliet Postcard — “For now these hot days is the mad blood stirring” https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/tillywigginsBookClub I just read a review of the film Sing Sing which shows prisoners performing Shakespeare within the maximum-security penitentiary. It’s a story about the Rehabilitation Through the Arts (RTA) program, which brings dance, theatre, music […]
Time management is harder now than it’s ever been – and getting worse. Why? “The mere consciousness of an engagement will sometimes worry a whole day” said Charles Dickens (c.1850). If Dickens felt like this when he probably had very few appointments it’s no surprise that most people are constantly anxious about what’s coming up […]
Arguably, creating music is one of the earliest forms of creativity. Image: Album cover of Charlie Watts Quintet — A Tribute to Charlie Parker The oldest discovered musical instruments in the world (flutes made of bones and mammoth ivory) are over 40,000 years old but instruments and song are probably far, far older. In his […]