There are times I find myself wishing the whole IT thing never happened. Especially when I recall my years of studying for 'A' levels, working in a factory and then going to university. Things were sort of complete. Music and books cost a bit, certainly, but were easily available, especially live music. And there was plenty to watch on the goggle box and at the cinema.
Now it sort of feels like there's too much, somehow, and a strange undervaluing is going on.
But it doesn't take much to pull me out of one of my jeremiads. Finding something really great on YouTube invariably does the trick. And that's what happened to me the other day when a brilliant sort of documentary on good old Olivier Messiaen from a series entitled Rabbit Hole Composers popped up in my feed. The guy who put this together, who goes by the rather fetching name Thacher Schreiber, presumably did so as a labour of love and deserves an award for doing so. Sensibly enthusiastic, informative, insightful and genuinely enlightening - for me, at least. And, I suspect, for a lot of other folk to, if they were to give it ears.
It sent me off to give a close listen to Peter Hill banging out Books 1 - 3 of Catalogue Oiseaux (which I'm able to listen to online in a very good quality recording via Apple Music. Really must stop moaning about the bad influence of the Internet, eh?!)
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