Do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life! I'm a Violinist and doing what I love is often interestingly contrasted with the reality of getting to do what I love...
24 Jun 2021 2 minute read 0 comments bengy
This weekend, I will be playing in a "Top 10" of pieces that have been voted somewhere at sometime by a poll of Bach's greatest hits. It's a sort of outdoor, cross genre concert that festivals sometimes like to put on... in order to be edgy or t...
22 Jun 2021 4 minute read 0 comments bengy
Unsplash You can find previous Brain Dumps here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12, Part 13. So, I managed to survive my first trimester of a humanities style degree (Masters...
20 Jun 2021 3 minute read 0 comments bengy
Every year in Leipzig, there is a pretty famous Bach festival due to the fact that the famous Baroque composer called Leipzig his home and place of employment for a good chunk of his life. One of the groups that I play with has played in this fe...
16 Jun 2021 2 minute read 0 comments bengy
One thing that I will definitely miss about Europe is the high speed rail network that connects all the major cities... and well, even quite a lot of the not-major ones as well! Travelling by train is always much more relaxing than travelling by...
15 Jun 2021 2 minute read 2 comments bengy
First up, my most sincere apologies to the Czech readers for the loss of all the inflections in the name Obecni dum (Municipal House). I'm just a sad English language native, and it have nightmares trying to write out all those little things on...
13 Jun 2021 2 minute read 0 comments bengy
This week, I found myself in Leipzig doing some recordings for the annual Bach festival which has gone online for another year due to the uncertainties with Coronavirus. These festivals are often in planning years in advance and hard to move for...
6 Jun 2021 3 minute read 0 comments bengy
Well, compared to the past year and a bit... I've been travelling a bit more for music work. It is still a trickle in comparison to what it used to be, but it does mean that my wife has not had such a stressful time juggling kids and her own wor...
3 Jun 2021 3 minute read 0 comments bengy
Ahhhh... this week, the Netherlands is seeing some very nice weather! Sunny, no rain and not at all windy! This isn't always a regular occurrence, and it means that it is a nice reason to ditch the car for the school pickups and dropoffs in favo...
31 May 2021 2 minute read 0 comments bengy
Our kitchen tap has been a touch leaky and stuck for a while now... I've been a bit too busy with study and other stuff, but this week the kids are school and I am on study break, so I no longer have an excuse to avoid doing this... apart from t...
26 May 2021 3 minute read 0 comments bengy
Netflix has been under a bit of pressure as new and old companies have started entering the streaming game. Mostly, the old companies have been just bringing over old IP and pulling their assets from Netflix, so Netflix has been forced to start...
