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• Simon Hewitt Jones, Violinist

  English concert violinist. Asking essential questions about what's happening to music and the arts, and the role of the violin in contemporary world culture.

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I was amused by this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7400109.stm
Wine can affect the way music is played too.
I was talking to someone the other day actually, about an event, and I had to explain that I was attending in a ‘professional capacity’. They didn’t seem to understand what it meant, so I defined it as being able to play in […]

Once upon a time there was a boy who really liked buses. He really, really liked buses.
He loved the way they turned. He loved the way they parked. He loved the way they moved gracefully in the hands of the right driver.
As soon as the boy was old enough, he learnt how to drive, and […]