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VIDEO PODCAST: Slava Ukraini! - recorded on 24 February 2022, the day Europe woke up to the news that Vladimir Putin's Russian forces had invaded Ukraine. A fifty minute video which also features Caitríona O'Leary and Eric Fraad discussing their new film Island of Saints, and pays tribute to Joseph Horovitz, Malcolm Troup and Maria Nockin.
CENTRAL ENGLAND: Mike Wheeler's concert reviews from Nottingham and Derbyshire feature high profile artists on the UK circuit - often quite early on their tours.
Midnight Ice Cream - Maria Nockin tells the story of a bus driver who lands a job working for an opera company
A Chorus of Dissent - Ros Bethan illustrates her own musical poem
The Life of Antonio Vivaldi - Susan Budig's short poem about Venice's 'Red Priest', composed in the form of a classical rondeau
A Vision of Shostakovich's String Quartet No 8 - A poem by J Jean Mayfield
Ask Alice - On parents and prose style, with classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh
Lust in A Major - Marsha Cappy's tale takes place in Prague in 1905 ...
Movements - Not quite a review - but ... with Kelly Ferjutz
Nota Bene - K C Devereaux tells the story of the second best piano student in the class
Beethoven's Ninth Solstice - A poem by Debra A Hoffmann
The Piano - A short story by Kelly Ferjutz
To everything there is a season - A short story by Jenna Orkin of wtceo.org
Ensemble. Mystic chanting - Elica Lupus-Popescu journeys to hear the lost pipers of Iasi
Music - a short story by Elizabeth Dobbs