We are delighted to announce that Chris Lawry has been awarded the first prize in OCA’s first ever music competition. The challenge was to produce an original arrangement of a traditional folk tune. Entrants could choose one of two melodies. In practice, most chose ‘We’ve been a-wandering’, as follows: Chris Lawry’s arrangement can be heard...
Do you ever get fed up with hearing Antonio Vivaldi’s Four Seasons over and over again? I certainly do. But then I’ve got some history here: I once swapped an LP of those musical seasons for an early Ray Charles album. The irony with the over-familiarity of the Four Seasons is that The Red...
I was listening to the Today programme on Radio 4 whilst driving into work last week and there was an item about an exhibition in Cambridge entitled Under Covers: Documenting Spies. Cambridge has been something of a breeding ground for spies, of course – and not always for the same side! The interviewee commented...
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