SUK MUSEUM
SUK MUSEUM When visiting the Dvorak sites around Prague, it is worth pausing in the village of Krrecrovice, where his favourite pupil, the violinist and composer Josef Suk, was …
Sedona Hiking Maps
A few pilgrims sit on the banks, dipping their feet in the crystal waters shaded by trees. I have booked in at the Albergue Los Caminantes, a few paces …
RAVEL MUSEUM
RAVEL MUSEUM For his last 15 years, Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) made his home in the delightful little town of Montfort-l’Amaury, on the edge of the forest of Rambouillet, 45 …
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN MUSEUM
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN MUSEUM Abbess, visionary, mystic, writer: Hildegard of Bingen was a composer but always as an adjunct to her religious vocation. She was born in Bermersheim, about …
PERLEA MUSEUM
PERLEA MUSEUM Better known as a conductor, the Romanian-born composer Jonel Perlea (1900-70) is commemorated in his family home at Ograda, about 140 km east ofBucharest. His father’s family …
SPONTINI MUSEUM
SPONTINI MUSEUM A few kilometres beyond Jesi, high in the hills off the road running south-west across Italy from the Adriatic port of Ancona, and leading ultimately to Rome, …
Meleager, Atalanta & the Boar Hunt
When Meleager, son of Calydon’s king Oineus (and brother of Tydeus), was born, the three Fates appeared miraculously in his mother Altheia’s bedroom. One promised that Meleager would be …
HERSCHEL MUSEUM
HERSCHEL MUSEUM William Herschel may be best remembered as the astronomer who in 1781 discovered the planet Uranus, but by profession he was a musician. For more than 30 …