Monthly Archives: December 2011

The same procedure as every year…

Posted on 23 December 2011 by

This is the last post on MusiCB3 – for this year. And every time before the end of the year I have the same procedure: I check which composers died 70 years ago (as any music written by a composer … Continue reading →

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Bygone concert venues no. 2: Hanover Square Rooms (I)

Posted on 16 December 2011 by

To do justice to the Hanover Square Rooms in a single posting simply isn’t possible, so this will be the first of two postings. The Hanover Square Rooms (known at first as the New Assembly Rooms) were built by Giovanni … Continue reading →

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Obsessed with Handel: Samuel Butler’s special collection

Posted on 9 December 2011 by

Many people have heard of the utopian satire Erewhon, but few are aware that its author, the Victorian polymath Samuel Butler (1835–1902), was driven to creativity by a lifelong obsession with George Frideric Handel. ‘Of all dead men Handel has … Continue reading →

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Music… and food glorious food

Posted on 2 December 2011 by

Last week, my colleague Margaret launched an exhibition with the great title Food Glorious Food, which you can see in the display cases on North Front Corridor at the Cambridge University Library. To set a musical counterpoint, and (I’m not … Continue reading →

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