A selection of M&V 'teaching' articles

DVD Spotlight. Creative Ageing? - Biana Kovic's 'Virtuoso', reviewed by Howard Smith. '... there's little new here at all.'

CD Spotlight. Beautifully Considered - Music for violin and viola, heard by Howard Smith. 'Braun has a firm, bright, highly focused tone ...'

CD Spotlight. Enviable Ease - Irena Portenko plays Chopin, recommended by Robert Anderson. '... easy fluidity of touch and tone ...'

Serious Fun - Lynn Norris looks back at the life of composer, conductor and pianist Aubrey Bowman

CD Spotlight. Californian, Dreaming - 'The Floating Bubble' by Ron George, recommended by Malcolm Tattersall. '... subtle long-range structures shaped with minimal scoring ...'

Ask Alice - On loyalty to pupils, with classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh

Faust and the 'Free World' - Madeline Jenkins Millard tells the tale of Tresa Waggoner and the Bennett Six

Provocative thoughts, from Patric Standford - Scientific music

Provocative thoughts, from Patric Standford - Teaching

Seeing music whole - Wilfrid Mellers at ninety - an appreciation by Peter Dickinson

Fool's gold - An alternate meaning to the music of Philip Glass, from Gordon Rumson

Wide range and experience - Joanne Chang writes on music education in the USA