Simon Rushby

#listeneveryday 5 Feb 2021 Today's blog brings together two things that are not heard enough: music for solo viola,...

#listeneveryday 4 Feb 2021 Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (named after, but not to be confused with, the poet Samuel Taylor...

#listeneveryday 3 Feb 2021 Jonathan Larson's musical Rent premiered in New York in 1996 and ran on Broadway for 12...

#listeneveryday 2 Feb 2021 Everybody's Gone to the Rapture is an adventure game for PS4 and PC, first released in...

#listeneveryday 1 Feb 2021 We return this week, with a slightly new hashtag, and a beautiful song by American composer...

#listeneveryday 30 Nov 2020 Courtney Pine is a multi-instrumentalist best known as one of British jazz's key exponents...

#listeneveryday 27 Nov 2020 This week we've been to the US, Mexico, Germany and Mali, and we end our little trip in...

#listeneveryday 26 Nov 2020 The kora is a kind of hybrid - part harp, part lute - that is associated chiefly with the...

#listeneveryday 25 Nov 2020 We're well into week 4 of #listeneveryday and we haven't had any Bach yet - time to put...

#listeneveryday 24 Nov 2020 Thanks to Dave Cunningham for suggesting this fantastic Mexican acoustic guitar duo for a...

#listeneveryday 23 Nov 2020 September Song first appeared in the 1938 Broadway musical Knickerbocker Holiday, which...

#listeneveryday 20 Nov 2020 The Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) is best known for his Piano Concerto...

#listeneveryday 19 Nov 2020 Ennio Morricone, who died in July this year, was one of the greatest film composers,...

#listeneveryday 18 Nov 2020 In April 1987 American engineer Ben Linder was working on a small hydroelectric dam in a...

#listeneveryday 17 Nov 2020 Karsh Kale is a producer and songwriter who has spent his career developing fusions of...

#listeneveryday 16 Nov 2020 For a lot of music students and particularly composers, if you mention 'Sibelius' the mind...

#listeneveryday 13 Nov 2020 Folk musicians Jon Boden and John Spiers were sitting in a traffic jam in 2004 when they...

#listeneveryday 12 Nov 2020 The opening track on Springsteen's iconic 1975 album Born To Run and perhaps one of the...

#listeneveryday 11 Nov 2020 The lads in their hundreds to Ludlow come in for the fair, There's men from the barn and...

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