Magical Mystery Tour: The Invention of The Beatles This lecture analyses the ‘psychedelic era’ of the Beatles, from...
Unwrapping Irving Berlin’s "White Christmas" This festive lecture explores the unusual roots of the song...
The Sondheim Showstopper: ‘Send in the Clowns’ 'Send in the Clowns’ was probably the most commercially successful...
The Operatic Showstopper: ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ This lecture considers ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ from Carousel (1945)...
Goethe the Musician and his influence on German Song Germany's greatest poet, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), seemed to...
Bridgetower – Black Musicians and British Culture, 1807-2007 George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower, the son of an Abyssinian slave...
Debussy - Text and Ideas: Maeterlinck's Golaud As title roles of both Maurice Maeterlinck’s play and Claude...