2016
June: These newsletters seem to be getting longer. We send them to you because you have been to, or expressed interest in a Lacock course. If, having tasted the waters of the Pierian spring, you have decided to exercise your talents in other directions and would rather not be on the list, simply send a […]
2015
September: We are approaching the end of an event-filled year. Saddest was the loss of Mavis Brown, who died unexpectedly in the spring. She and Mike, a very welcome pairing of low alto and high tenor, were very much part of the Lacock landscape and had been coming to courses for over two decades. An […]
2014
This year’s winter school will be in the Shropshire town of Ludlow. The conductor will be Robert Hollingworth, who has come up with a programme built around the music, interests and associates of Peter Warlock. Warlock was one of the people who gave impetus to the early music revival at the beginning of the last […]
2013
February: When writing my prospectuses I am aware that I should be addressing the uninitiated as well as the old lags; I always try to give some indication of what it’s all about and what you should expect to get out of coming to a music course. A phrase I have fallen back on more […]
2012
October: After a break of seven years Lacock returns to the wonderful historic pueblo blanco of Jimena de le Frontera in April. Monica and Peter Becko have returned from their wanderings in the Near and Far East to their old juzgado or court house, one of the town’s most impressive buildings, which they run as an arts centre and […]
2011
October: If you’ve been to Monteconero you’ll understand why I find it impossible to tear myself away. It’s partly its fairy-tale situation, a monastery surrounded by oak forest on a mountain top on the Adriatic coast, but also that it has very much a family-run feeling about it: the current padrone, Augusto (his grandmother started […]