Apologies again for the lack of posts around here, been another busy week. Put a tick against all of the usual excuses, new job training courses, spending time with people close to me etc, but another big event that has taken up a lot of my time has been preparation for the start of the third series of audition, the Resonance FM radio programme I present with Alastair Wilson. Much of this week I worked on completely overhauling the audition website, which you can see here. My skills with website design are all self taught, so I am really pleased with how it came out. As a piece of graphic design its horrible, but the main thing is it works, and is easy to ...
›Been a busy old week here bouncing about the country sorting out employment. I'll be starting work again on the 1st October, though a few other options remain open, so you still have a few more weeks of me typing irrelevant drivel here on a more frequent basis... The slow posting is partly because I've been home I've been deeply engrossed in Elizabeth Wilson's mammoth biography of Shostakovich entitled A Life Remembered, and I've been slowly working my way through the pictured box set of DVD documentaries, Leaving Home - Orchestral Music in the 20th Century. written and narrated by Sir Simon Rattle. The films originally appeared on UK TV (I think Channel 4?) a ...
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