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The Unexpected – by Joseph O’Connor

Happy New Year!   Christmas and New Year are a holiday, and a very enjoyable one. And….as it is New Year, how about new year’s resolutions? Well, I will resist the temptation to devote this article to the futility or importance or success or failure of new year’s...

Hamlet, Spinach and the Power of Thought

Last week I went to see Shakespeare’s Hamlet at the Barbican with Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role. It’s a wonderful production, beautifully staged, superbly well acted, a great experience. This must be the most enduring and masterful of...

Practice Part 2 – Guitars and Ghandi

The last Lambent Letter was about practice and what it can make you. Better than you were, no doubt, but not perfect. How much better depends on the quality of the practice. It reminds me of a story that I used to tell my guitar students. It is probably true, or if...

Practice makes…what? – Part 1

When I began as a classical guitar concert player and teacher, I used to tell my students ‘Practice makes perfect’, so often that their eyes glazed over. It’s a cliché, so no one paid any attention to it. They ‘knew’ it was true,...

Desert Kings and Breaking Bad

What does ‘Ozymandias’ mean to you? You may know it as the title of the 60th episode of the great TV series ‘Breaking Bad’, called by many one of the greatest TV drama episodes ever made. It had action, drama, pathos, emotion, the tangled webs...

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