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The First Sense
Robyn Davidson
‘Hearing, they say, is the first of the senses we develop in the womb.’
Mozart, Not
Alan Rusbridger
‘It has been said that playing a Fazioli is like driving a Ferrari after driving an Austin Maestro.’
American Folk
Greil Marcus
‘Smith placed murder ballads, explosions of religious ecstasy, moral warnings and hedonistic revels on the same plane of value and meaning’
Actus Tragicus
Sir John Eliot Gardiner
‘Bach devises an ingenious symmetrical structure to underpin in music the theological division between Law and Gospel. ’
Tantum Ergo
Craig Brown
‘If you were twenty in the summer of 1967, San Francisco was the only place to be.’
Cecilia
Andrew O’Hagan
‘Now that everyone lives as if in a movie, we begin to forget that once it was only special people who did.’
Medtner
Philip Pullman
‘It feels like being a child in a room where adults are having a deep and passionate conversation about important things’
I’m Like a Bird
Nick Hornby
‘Maybe disposability is a sign of pop music's maturity, a recognition of its own limitations, rather than the converse.’
Unfinished Sympathy
Julie Burchill
‘Pop songs have the power to make me behave badly, and for the first time in my life I want to do the right thing’
Confessions of a Middle-Aged Ecstasy Eater
Anonymous
‘A mind is a terrible thing to waste, and there is much being wasted when one deliberately chooses not to explore the ecstasy of its deeper horizons.’
Yangdol’s Journey
Manuel Bauer
‘Every year, more than 2,000 Tibetan refugees arrive in Nepal and India seeking asylum. Almost fifty per cent of them are children.’
