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Why do we gamble and take needless risks?

It could be said that risk taking, combined with a...

Music in the Age of Copernicus

Kraków was one of Europe 's main cultural and commercial...

Mazurkas and Christmas Lullabies

The tradition of the East-Central European carol is long and...

Imperial Rivalry with the Russian Empire

During the nineteenth century, Great Britain and Russia engaged in...

Irony in music from the Soviet Union

This lecture concert explored how irony was used in music...

St Stanislaus and Student Revelries

The Lisbon Earthquake: Two hundred and fifty years on

On 1 November 1755, Lisbon was devastated by a massive...

The left, right and centre of male and female brain politics

The two sides of our brain are not functionally equivalent...

Music in History

How well served is music in general and cultural histories...

Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 8

This is a discussion with the Shostakovich scholar Professor David...