Category Archives: music
Hope
“They’re so wonderful: after all that’s happened, with all the war and poverty, they still have hope.” L hates it when people from rich countries talk about people in poor countries like that. What’s so great about hope? she says. … Continue reading
Filed under confession, Gustav Mahler, music, politics
Living in the past
I asked for, and got, Porcupines by Echo & the Bunnymen and Gustav Mahler’s “Resurrection” symphony, both of which first appeared in my life about 1983; the first via Radio 1, the second thanks to Stephen Sharkey, who had heard … Continue reading
Filed under confession, Gustav Mahler, Liverpool, music, my past, Terence Davies
