Category: Dispatches
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New Year’s Day Concert 2026
Monday can wait. New Year needs to be gently ushered in by stylish people in stylish surroundings.
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Notes on Listening
After a day immersed in figures and forecasts, stepping into Wigmore Hall feels like surfacing for air. Here, the discipline that keeps research going is mirrored in the discipline of a pianist at a single keyboard. Both require attention, endurance, and trust in something more than numbers.
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The Wrong Boat to Venice
A trip to Venice to review a festival. Yet, somewhere between the wrong boat, the gondoliers and a memory from 1980, the assignment changed.
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1452. Gare du Nord, Paris.
From Eurostar carriage scenes to Parisine on the Metro, the trip sharpens listening long before the first chord sounds.
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Barbican Centre, London. 22 Sept 2025.
Thirty years ago I thought the Barbican a miracle squeezed between the bustle of the City. Today it feels monumental, defiantly itself. Outside in the fierce autumn light, Tamsin Waley-Cohen speaks with candour about art, motherhood, and music.