Simon RushbyJun 13, 20212 minBooks and resources - an updateRecently I've been busy writing new articles and books for Music Teacher magazine and Rhinegold Education. For Music Teacher, my online...
Simon RushbyMar 5, 20212 minAdagio Assai from Piano Concerto in G by Maurice Ravel#listeneveryday 5 Mar 2021 The final post in this current run of #listeneveryday is of one of my personal favourites,...
Simon RushbyMar 4, 20212 minAnxiety by Astor Piazzolla#listeneveryday 4 Mar 2021 The Argentinian bandoneon player and composer Astor Piazzolla grew up in New York and...
Simon RushbyMar 3, 20211 minHoppípolla by Sigur Rós#listeneveryday 3 Mar 2021 Sigur Rós is an Icelandic band formed in Reykjavík in 1994. Their name means 'victory rose'...
Simon RushbyMar 2, 20212 minGeorgia On My Mind by Ray Charles (written by Hoagy Carmichael)#listeneveryday 2 Mar 2021 Songwriter and bandleader Hoagy Carmichael wrote Georgia On My Mind in 1930, while he was...
Simon RushbyMar 1, 20212 minLarghetto from Violin Concerto in D by Beethoven#listeneveryday 1 Mar 2021 We begin this week with some long-overdue Beethoven, and in this piece find him in a...
Simon RushbyFeb 26, 20212 minWhat It Means To Be A Friend by Jason Robert Brown#listeneveryday 26 Feb 2021 Jason Robert Brown is a composer, pianist and conductor who was born in New York in 1970...
Simon RushbyFeb 25, 20212 minYou Can Get It If You Really Want by Jimmy Cliff#listeneveryday 25 Feb 2021 This iconic song is one of four written by Jimmy Cliff that featured on the soundtrack to...
Simon RushbyFeb 24, 20211 minBarcarolle by Amy Beach#listeneveryday 24 Feb 2021 Amy Beach was an American composer who lived from 1867 to 1944, and one of the most...
Simon RushbyFeb 23, 20212 minSymphony No.5 (finale) by Dmitri Shostakovich#listeneveryday 23 Feb 2021 Shostakovich was heavily criticised by Stalin's regime in the mid-1930s. In 1936 the...
Simon RushbyFeb 22, 20212 minTake Five by Dave Brubeck, as played by Michel Camilo#listeneveryday 22 Feb 2021 Take Five appeared on Dave Brubeck's 1959 album Time Out, released in the same year as...
Simon RushbyFeb 19, 20212 minYa Tira Tiri Ya Hamama by Rouwaida Attieh#listeneveryday 19 Feb 2021 We see much about the troubles in Syria, so I wanted to bring some balance by sharing some...
Simon RushbyFeb 18, 20212 minMy Funny Valentine by Rodgers and Hart, played by Miles Davis Quintet#listeneveryday 18 Feb 2021 I guess I'm four days late with this one, but it is one of my favourite standards and has...
Simon RushbyFeb 17, 20212 minAria from Bach's Goldberg Variations, played by Glenn Gould#listeneveryday 17 Feb 2021 The story goes that Count Hermann Karl von Keyserling, a powerful 18th century diplomat,...
Simon RushbyFeb 16, 20212 minA Case Of You by Joni Mitchell#listeneveryday 16 Feb 2021 Just before our love got lost, you said "I am as constant as the Northern Star" And I said...
Simon RushbyFeb 15, 20212 minThe Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughan Williams#listeneveryday 15 Feb 2021 He rises and begins to round, He drops the silver chain of sound, Of many links without a...
Simon RushbyFeb 12, 20212 minSend In The Clowns by Stephen Sondheim, sung by Sarah Vaughan#listeneveryday 12 Feb 2021 I wanted to include a performance by Sarah Vaughan and fully expected it to be a standard...
Simon RushbyFeb 11, 20212 minJealous by Labrinth#listeneveryday 11 Feb 2021 Labrinth is Timothy McKenzie, a Hackney-born producer, songwriter, singer and rapper who...
Simon RushbyFeb 10, 20212 minThree Romances for Violin and Piano by Clara Schumann#listeneveryday 10 Feb 2021 Clara Wieck was a German pianist and composer, born in 1819 in Leipzig. She lived with her...
Simon RushbyFeb 9, 20212 minMiserere mei, Deus by Gregorio Allegri#listeneveryday 9 Feb 2021 In the 1630s, a member of the Sistine Chapel choir, Gregorio Allegri, composed a setting of...