The Glamorous Life of a Musician!
The Glamorous Life of a Musician!

The Glamorous Life of a Musician!

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...


Storms...

5 Nov 2022 3 minute read 0 comments bengy

  The weather in Canberra (well, most of East of Australia) has been a touch wet and stormy in the past couple of weeks. That has made for some disasterous flooding in some areas of New South Wales... but thankfully, most of Canberra has avoided t...

Adam Henson's Cotswold Farm Park (United Kingdom)

4 Nov 2022 2 minute read 0 comments bengy

  Wow, this set of photos is a blast from my past... a period when we were still living in Europe, and we had taken a little ferry and car trip across the Channel to spend a week in the quite amazingly beautiful area of the Cotswolds in the United...

Tuning tuning tuning...

3 Nov 2022 4 minute read 0 comments bengy

  My wife has a pretty largish concert coming up on the fortepiano... and she has to do quite a bit of practicing for it. So, being the nice husband that I am... I offered to do the tuning and upkeep of the tuning in the weeks beforehand, that she...

New Toys and Supplies!

2 Nov 2022 3 minute read 2 comments bengy

  Nothing is more fun than getting some new gardening toys! Sigh... when did I get so old... I used to relish the days of getting new electronic shinies, now... I'm excited by new hand tools! Well, in this case... it is an electronic garden tool a...

More advice for a fledgling ensemble (beware of the money)

1 Nov 2022 4 minute read 0 comments bengy

Unsplash     Unsplash   Well... it has been a busy couple of weeks trying to gather more information and learning more about how to start a little music ensemble. There is just quite a bit of groundwork and stuff that needs to be set up and l...

Assessment Trauma!

30 Oct 2022 4 minute read 0 comments bengy

Unsplash     Unsplash   Sigh... that was a bit of a traumatic day in this last week. As part of my job teaching and guiding university students, I have to also submit assessments of performances, and also individual assessments of students ba...

Fear of Consonant and Hard Sounds

28 Oct 2022 3 minute read 0 comments bengy

Unsplash     Unsplash   This is a topic in music that gets me quite irritated at times. In modern Classical music, we have generally moved a long way away from the idea of music as speech and dance. We tend to be captured fully by the concept...

Learning the Financial Side of Setting up an Ensemble

27 Oct 2022 4 minute read 0 comments bengy

Unsplash     Unsplash   So... I'm starting o get a little bit more serious about starting a little Early Music ensemble. The music and performance side of things is pretty okay... I know how to do that sort of thing. However, I am trying to m...

Rain, Weeds, and Mulch

26 Oct 2022 4 minute read 3 comments bengy

  It has been a crazily wet last week... too much rain, and I'm quite thankful that our stormwater is handling it all properly now. However, there are a couple of low areas around our house that take quite a long time to dry out... and when it is...

Starting a New Ensemble

25 Oct 2022 3 minute read 0 comments bengy

Unsplash     Unsplash   Now that I'm just under half a year back in Australia... I have this urge and desire to start my own little Early Music ensemble. Partly to keep myself sane with a pet project, and partly to infect as many of the young...