Who is John Sinclair, you are probably asking? Those of you who read my last post, Shy love smiles and acid drops: Letters from a difficult marriage, may remember that he was the husband of the m...
Those Griffyns, if you haven’t realised it from my previous posts, are a brave and versatile bunch. Their latest outing, the Ear of the Cat, was inspired by musical director Michael Sollis’ r...
https://whisperinggums.com/2016/05/04/the-griffyns-are-mummified/
If the bicycle trip gives Emma Ayres’ travel memoir Cadence its chronological spine, it is music which provides its skeleton. However, before I discuss music, I need to respond to those commen...
https://whisperinggums.com/2016/01/20/delicious-descriptions-emma-ayres-on-music/
Although Emma Ayres’ memoir Cadence had been passed around my reading group with much enthusiasm over the last year or so, I wasn’t intending to read it – not because I wasn’t interested,...
https://whisperinggums.com/2016/01/15/emma-ayres-cadence-travels-with-music-review/
There are several reasons why now seemed an opportune time to write my first Library of America (LOA) post for 2015. The first reason is obvious. It’s June and I haven’t featured one yet. T...
https://whisperinggums.com/2015/06/07/virgil-thomson-taste-in-music-review/
The time has come, I think, to talk about disclosures. I have been blogging for just over six years now, mostly on literature but also, occasionally, on other cultural experiences – including...
https://whisperinggums.com/2015/06/04/the-griffyns-take-us-north-way-north/
Only the Griffyn Ensemble could put together a concert that included Arvo Pärt and Bob Dylan, that started with eerie sounds from a tape and ended with mysterious knockings and bumpings from wh...
https://whisperinggums.com/2014/12/14/the-griffyns-end-the-year-on-hmm-a-macabre-note/
And now for something completely different. If Griffyn Ensemble’s last concert, Do you believe? (my review), kept us on our intellectual toes from go to whoa, their third concert* of 2014, Hou...
https://whisperinggums.com/2014/09/14/the-griffyns-are-on-fire/
Have you ever been to a show – a concert, a play, a ballet, for example – and wondered about the performers? How do they relate to each other? What do they do in their spare time? Well, quite...
https://whisperinggums.com/2014/04/13/performers-and-the-audience/
It’s pretty much a given that a Griffyn Ensemble concert will be both entertaining and challenging – and their latest concert, Cloudy With a Chance of Rain, was no exception. But this concert...
https://whisperinggums.com/2012/08/15/the-griffyn-ensembles-paean-to-the-weather/