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...
8 Apr 2021 4 minute read 0 comments bengy
If you have followed my blog for any length of time, it will become quite apparent that I'm much more at home and comfortable with abstract and theoretical ideas and more than a little bit of a dunce when it comes to practical hands-on stuff....
7 Apr 2021 3 minute read 0 comments bengy
The other day, I was taking my children down to the local IND (Immigration office) in Den Haag (The Hague) to get their biometrics done for their visa documentation. We aren't usually in this part of Den Haag, we have no reason to be near the st...
3 Apr 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. Another week, another stuffing for my head of new concepts or clarifications and formalisation of old concepts! I guess that is what the Constructiv...
28 Mar 2021 3 minute read 1 comment bengy
Unsplash You can find previous Brain Dumps here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4. Well, this was an interesting week for the study... as I had to actually work as a musician at the same time as juggling the full time study! Thankfully, I co...
24 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments bengy
Today, we started the day with an in venue rehearsal, both for the musicians to play in the space and also for the TV and audio calibration as well. Audio recordings are part and parcel of our lives, but the TV and visual parts were a bit novel. Sur...
22 Mar 2021 2 minute read 0 comments bengy
IMG_20210322_100522.jpg Its really strange to be back at work in a large scale ensemble again. It has been a year since the big wave of concert cancellations began rolling and things haven't really picked up since then. And yet here we are at the beg...
19 Mar 2021 5 minute read 0 comments bengy
Unsplash You can find previous Brain Dumps here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. This is now the end of the third teaching week of the Masters of Secondary Teaching course that I'm doing online. The first trimester is 8 teaching weeks, and so we a...
17 Mar 2021 5 minute read 0 comments bengy
Integrity via Unsplash Unsplash This last couple of weeks, the idea of integrity has been bouncing around in my mind due to a few (exactly 3!). It's something that all of probably hold in high regard in theory... but sometimes fall shor...
14 Mar 2021 3 minute read 0 comments bengy
So, we are now over one year into a pandemic which has basically destroyed performing musicians (and restaurateurs and others...). At the start, there was much talk about how people would change their ways of living and realise that there were w...
12 Mar 2021 4 minute read 0 comments bengy
Unsplash You can find previous Brain Dumps here: Part 1, Part 2. So, another week of learning more about Constructivism as it relates to learning/teaching from the Piaget and Vygotsky schools of thought. Extending upon the ideas that child...
