I have realised, just in time - briefly reverting to London time, since it is past midnight in Berlin - that it is ten years ago to the day that I began to write this blog.
It began, also in Berlin, with the symphonies of Gustav Mahler, conducted by Pierre Boulez and Daniel Barenboim. Boulezian continues, of course, to bear the
former’s name, and my most recent review is of a concert conducted
by the latter; both artists remain éminence
grises, and I suspect they always will. I had no idea what I was doing when
I started; indeed, I did not even know what a blog was. Perhaps I still do not;
that would actually be rather a lovely thought. But thank you for reading, even those of you who do not like what I have had to say.
This insane enterprise really would be nothing without you - which is another way of shifting the blame...
Happy Easter!
