When poet James Thomson penned the words in 1840 to “Rule Britannia” the patriotic affirmation of the power and glory of the then already ascendant British Empire, with its rousing refrain of “Britons never, never, never shall be slaves”, he was, of course, not thinking of the people who Continue Reading
Now this is music #28: IYES, GusGus, Paperwhite, Wilfred Giroux, Benjamin Francis Leftwich
Shakespeare once said “If music be the food of love, then play on.” It spoke of music’s ability to create and sustain an air of romance, but referred to the idea that it is as vital as anything else in sustaining life. (Honestly that’s possibly not even close to Continue Reading