Simon Rushby

#listeneveryday 10 Nov 2020 In our busy world, stillness is hard to come by. Enforced lockdown has been cruel to...

#listeneveryday 9 Nov 2020 "This is a story about America then, told by America now" said Lin-Manuel Miranda about his new...

#listeneveryday 6 Nov 2020 Jazz history was made on June 28, 1928 in a Chicago recording studio, when Louis Armstrong put...

#listeneveryday 5 Nov 2020 A suggestion with a fire-related theme for Bonfire Night, this unusual song was released as a...

#listeneveryday 4 Nov 2020 The beginning of the 20th century saw Austrian composer Gustav Mahler deeply in love with Alma...

#listeneveryday 3 Nov 2020 In early 1787 the 31-year old composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart made a very successful visit to...

#listeneveryday 2 Nov 2020 A new musical toured the UK in 1964 and played on Broadway, New York in 1965. It's name was The...

An iconic Beatles song from their 1965 Rubber Soul album

Starting in November, I'm posting every weekday with a suggestion for something to listen to. It could be from any style of music, and...

Just before Covid-19 made travel impossible and saw my and many other people's work schedules emptied, I was in Singapore for a few...

After six weeks in Indonesia and five in the USA, my final work trip of an eventful 2019 was five weeks in Kenya, and my first experience...

In May and June 2019 I worked in North Eastern USA, just at the time that Spring's sunshine was beginning to replace levels of rainfall...

The track 'Morning Dawn', which I wrote with Michael Price and Nick Hill for our album 'Warm Piano', was used as the closing track in the...

I spent just over five weeks in this amazing country early in 2019, four in the bustling capital, Jakarta, a relaxing weekend on the...

Time I caught up! In October and November 2018 I spent five weeks working in Hong Kong, my second trip to one of my favourite places. As...

The third and final part of my travelogue of a 7-week tour of Turkey in April/May 2018. After four really beautiful days surrounded by...

Part 2 of my travelogue of a 7-week tour of Turkey in April/May 2018. The week in Adana was very comfortable in a nice hotel and though...

I'm recently back from a 7-week tour of Turkey. I visited 10 towns and cities and learned so much about a country I had never been to...

Over the past few weeks I've had the pleasure of traversing the UK listening to lots of young musicians as I assist with the recruitment...

Those in music education - whether in schools or as private teachers - will be only too aware of the perception that fewer children seem...