By Gareth Davies | May 4, 2012 at 2:16 pm | 3 comments
Brussels. The centre of European bureaucracy and, if you read the right newspapers, the enemy of our proud British traditions. Leaving the Euro debate alone for the moment, Brussels has been accused at various points in the last decade of trying to force UHT milk on us, dilute...
Posted in: LSO On Tour, Paris & Brussels May 2012
By Gareth Davies | November 16, 2010 at 2:57 pm | One comment
As an encore at the recital the other night, we played a little melancholy Welsh folk song. Simple but effective in its main aim of bringing a lump to the throat and a tear to the eye. A member of the audience asked me at the reception afterwards if all Welsh folk songs were...
Posted in: LSO On Tour, Luxembourg/Paris November 2010