Today I bought some new reeds for my clarinet, and I noticed that they now come individually wrapped. They’re Vandoren reeds (well-known) and come in a box of ten, as before, but each one is individually wrapped to keep each reed at the ‘ideal’ environmental conditions before use, in particular during shipping and storage. I [...]
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Posted in Clarinet, France, Music on August 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Liszt en Provence
Posted in Classical Music, France on August 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last night I attended a Liszt en Provence concert at the Château Saint Estève d’Uchaux. The pianist was Agnès Graziano, from Lyon, who is exceptionally talented (a name to look out for in the future). She played a range of pieces by Chopin and Liszt, plus three encores, two of which I did [...]
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