Alice McVeigh
Alice McVeigh was born in South Korea, of American diplomatic parents, and lived in Southeast Asia until she was thirteen, when the family returned to the suburbs of Washington DC. She then began to play the cello, winning, among others, the Beethoven Society of Washington cello competition, as well as being selected as a finalist in the National Music Teachers Association Young Soloists competition and the National Symphony of Washington Young Concert Artists award. She achieved a BMus with distinction in performance at Indiana University School of Music in 1980, the same year in which she came to London to study privately with William Pleeth. Since then she has freelanced with orchestras including the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic and John Eliot Gardiner's Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique all over the UK, the EU, America and the Far East. Alice has written fiction all her life, but never attempted publication until the 1990s when her first two novels (While the Music Lasts and Ghost Music) were published by Orion, and her first play (Beating Time) in 2003 by New Theatre Productions. She is currently finishing a commissioned play, and a third novel. Alice has been married to Simon McVeigh (currently deputy Vice-Chancellor at Goldsmiths College, University of London) since 1981; and she started editing by working extensively on his first book, 'Concert Life in London from Mozart to Haydn', which was published by Cambridge University Press. Since then she has edited all of his articles and books, as well as being in constant demand by other musicologists and writers. READ ALICE'S WEEKLY COLUMN - ASK ALICE
M&V articles about Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - Classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh proposes a New York Philharmonic Orchestra tour to Pyongyang, Tehran, Harare and Rangoon
Ask Alice - Fair complaints and botox, with classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - High marks for Steven Isserlis, but not for Birmingham, with classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - King Solomon, Beta-blockers and trumpet players, with classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - On the trail of a few artistic anythings in a dumbed down world is Alice McVeigh, agony aunt of culture
Ask Alice - Temptation in electronic form for Alice McVeigh, musicians' agony aunt extraordinaire
Ask Alice - Ping Pong and the Noise Abatement Society, with classically trained agony aunt Aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh has something else on her mind this week ...
Ask Alice - Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh has something on her mind this week ...
Ask Alice - Improving on Beethoven? More correspondence with Classical Music's Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh meets the Head Chief Moose ...
Ask Alice - Confucius (in the guise of Geoff of Hampstead) predicted the perfect recipe for Alice McVeigh's Classical Music Agony Aunt column: dachshunds, daughters' birthdays, God, goldfish, husbands, landsnails, mothers, parrots, slices of apple and the scent of gerbils, but not the slightest hint of classical music ...
Ask Alice - Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh's adventures in China ...
Ask Alice - Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh on the trail of no ordinary newsflash ...
Ask Alice - Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh tries to change her email address
Ask Alice - Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh gives a worst-first view of her recent vacation
Ask Alice - Whilst Alice is on vacation, deputy Classical Music Agony Aunt Kelly Ferjutz writes about women composers
Ask Alice - Questions about Mussorgsky and about living women composers, fielded by deputy Classical Music Agony Aunt Kelly Ferjutz
Ask Alice - On Handel and helping Russia, with Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - Clearly unhinged? Read on, as Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh takes on Wikianswers, J S Bach and Johann Peter Kellner
Ask Alice - Barking, biting and a hole in the head ... the case of Anna Magdalena and Buckie Bear versus Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh and her dachshund
Ask Alice - An unscheduled visit to the other side, for Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - Saying no to Yo-Yo, by Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - John Attanas' recent book about Yo-Yo Ma, reviewed by Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - On orchestral politics, with Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - A crisis for a double bass beginner, and 'Death in Venice' at English National Opera, with Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - On talent, known and unknown, and at home and abroad, with Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - On rigged auditions and the threat of digital orchestras, with Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - How to get something out of nothing, with Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh mourns the passing of the great cellist Mstislav Rostropovich
Ask Alice - On 'Swingin' Samson, pathetic excuses and American gun law, with Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - On children's gems, Joshua Bell and The Washington Post, with Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - On cello quartets, satanic dances and cricket, with Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - Tips on baroque bowing and orchestral touring from Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh deals with Disgusted of Greater London
Ask Alice - This week, a raging head-colb forb Classicub Musib Abonub Aunt Alice McVeigh
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Ask Alice - Problems down at The Black Horse, reported by Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - Dealing with the editor, by Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - A theatrical warning about 'The Coram Boy' from Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - Is Beethoven in your toothbrush? Talk to our Classical Music Agony Aunt, Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - The trouble with siblings, by Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - On curses and blessings, with Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - On Guarneri cellos and firing pupils, with Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - On concert shoes and extending the nativity, with Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
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Ask Alice - On neurotics, the clarinet and credit card cloning, with Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - On conversations within the orchestra, with Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - On teenage violinists and ... girls, with Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh in convalescence
Ask Alice - Judging judges, desperate cellists, and Al-Qaeda Christmas festivities, with Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - Bums on seats and heads in nooses, with Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - On humming cellos, Indiana University Music School and the charisma bypass operation, with Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - From heaven to hell, damnation to dalmatians, and on the dumbing down of classical music, with Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - 'Get insured and move on' is the advice this week from Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - with the still slightly testy Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - without Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - On cello strings and flaky painters, with Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - On straining the vocal cords, with Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - On Steven Isserlis, Agnes Poirier and surrender monkeys, with Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - On cellos for the needy, Schwarzkopf and replicating genius, with Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - Carbon music, Cretans and landsnails, with Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - On pianists, conductors, truth and goldfish, with Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - On Sicilian drivers and culture vultures, with Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - 'Never in the history of ... drivel', and 'soon-to-be ruler of ... Orpington', Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh quotes reviews, advises cellists and plays tennis
Ask Alice - Tricky Dicky and the ushers, with Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - When the ushers meet the musicians, with Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - Tennis, appearances and more tennis, for Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh's classical music humour column is clear as a mountain stream, and guaranteed free from tamagotchis, tennis and tuba trios
Ask Alice - Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh is proud to be with the English Symphony Orchestra
Ask Alice - STDs, tamagotchis and rejection letters, with Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - Conducting fellowships and big breaks for tenors, with Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - Correspondence between Tina and Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - On fainting pianists and escaping from a career as a violinist, with Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - Announcing a new book, that is and yet isn't by Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - On Anna Magdalena and Johann Sebastian, with Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - On the relative merits of Bach and Wagner, with Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - On goldfish and landsnails, with Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - On oboe-playing daughters-in-law and tuba careers, with Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - On playing the violin, the viola, the tuba and jobs, with Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - On the perils of tendonitis, and the return after a long absence of Mrs Gloria Stoatgobbler, with Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - A cry from the back desks of the violins, answered by Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - On Wallace, Gromit, Sir Edward and Aunt Alice, beta-blockers, hate mail, were-rabbits and Americans, with Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - Concert reviews, violins, cellos on 'eBay' and mathematical problems for schoolchildren, with Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh ponders on the purpose of concert reviews, and fields questions on tamagotchi and ice skating
Ask Alice - Half-term problems for Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - Friends for fat people and plum roles for flautists, with Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - On the perils of Baroque dating, teaching adults and slimming, with Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - On earplugs, violinists and kids' names, with Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - Lighter in body and mind, Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh is still having problems ...
Ask Alice - Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh is in a very strange mood this week ...
Ask Alice - New Year letters from fellow cellos, fielded by Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - Advice on tuition from classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - Bursting with good will at Christmas is classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - Balls for baubles, plus a Romeo and Juliet prelude. Into the sin bin with brass players and conductors, thrown by classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - On cellos and flutes, with classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - Gender, musical instruments, open rehearsals, dancing and passionate sympathy from classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - Leon Fleisher, beauty and Christmas news, with classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - Reviews, scams and justice, with classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - Classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh and the Rolex school of spam
Ask Alice - Classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh and the yay-boo school of journalism
Ask Alice - Classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh and a reader are both frazzled at half-term ...
Ask Alice - On bargains and politics, with classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - Instructions for dealing with a very tricky problem, prepared by classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - Disorder in the ranks, dealt with the Alice McVeigh way
Ask Alice - Why a good violinist needs a good bow, but a good children's party shouldn't have a bouncy castle, by classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - On cellists, composers and veils, with classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - Classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh contemplates 'le commencement de la end' supreme
Ask Alice - Boarding at specialist music schools, with classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh
Alarms included - Alice McVeigh's 'Ghost Music', reviewed by Kelly Ferjutz
Ask Alice - More questions for Alice McVeigh, classical music's agony aunt
Ask Alice - Classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh returns to tell the story of her rescue by Hel and Slime
While the music lasts - Kelly Ferjutz enjoys Alice McVeigh's musical novel
Ask Alice - Jaundiced, but nearly in Crete .... is classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - Keep taking the tablets ... the latest advice from classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - More forays into politics and literature, with classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - Helpful hints about sharing instruments, plus some musical commentary on Wimbledon, from classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - Sad news about classical music for Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - On cellists, politicians, children's musicals and sewer rats, with classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - In the wake of recent European elections, our ever-timely and impartial agony aunt of classical music encourages us to vote McVeigh
Ask Alice - Problems this week with headmasters, oboists and emails, for classical music's agony aunt, Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - On Botox, youth and adventures in good music, with classical music's agony aunt, Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - On viola jokes and the eating of dogs, with classical music's agony aunt, Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - On the plight of Cassie in Brisbane, with classical music's agony aunt, Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - Muso mates versus non-muso mates, with classical music's agony aunt, Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - Schoolwork and headlice - all in a day's work for classical music's agony aunt, Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - 'Slice it how you like', claims Alice McVeigh, Bromley's premier researcher into cello sounds and classical music's world's first agony aunt. 'How kinky is that?'
Ask Alice - Alice McVeigh, the agony aunt of classical music, basks in the glory of her successful Dvorák performance ...
Ask Alice - Alice McVeigh, the agony aunt of classical music, is artistically ham-strung and irritated, this week ...
Ask Alice - A tale of cricket and children's books, with classical music's agony aunt, Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - A tale of one passport application, by classical music's agony aunt, Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - Classical music's agony aunt, Alice McVeigh, gives up explanation (or should that be exclamation?) points for Lent
Ask Alice - Community service for conductors? Romantic music for bassoonists? All this and more with classical music's agony aunt, Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - On the continued excellence of the cello and the continued bad behaviour of conductors, with classical music's agony aunt, Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - The balance of the sexes or ... conductors with their trousers down, with classical music's agony aunt, Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - On string quartets, advertising, cellists and fame, with classical music's agony aunt, Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - A heartfelt 'cri-de-coeur' from classical music's agony aunt, Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - Busking amongst the sheep and speed cameras, classical music's agony aunt, Alice McVeigh, live this week from Wales
Ask Alice - On diction and eye jobs, with classical music's agony aunt, Alice McVeigh, live this week from Brighton pier
Ask Alice - On first love and Art, with classical music's agony aunt, Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - On anonymous Christmas cards, with classical music's agony aunt, Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - Recent changes in UK legislation impinge on the world of classical music's agony aunt, Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - More questions and answers with Alice McVeigh, during which our Agony Aunt's cover is finally blown ...
Ask Alice - Choristers and Christmas gifts, with classical music's agony aunt, Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - Conductors' handshakes and solo bows, with classical music's agony aunt, Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - Problems of the back and the leg, dealt swift blows by classical music's agony aunt, Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - Classical music's agony aunt, Alice McVeigh, deals with problems of food and light ...
Ask Alice - On machines and men, with classical music's agony aunt, Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - Classical music's agony aunt, Alice McVeigh, apologises to her Welsh readers
Ask Alice - A brush with the law for classical music's agony aunt, Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - On changing teachers, with classical music's agony aunt, Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - Freedom, A Serf's Charter, by classical music's agony aunt, Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - More questions and answers with classical music's agony aunt, Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - Classical music's agony aunt, Alice McVeigh, on poetry
Ask Alice - The agony aunt and the butterfly, by Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - DGriffs is not amused by classical music's agony aunt, Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - Classical music's agony aunt Alice McVeigh visits Legoland (?!)
Ask Alice - On spiders and singing ... from classical music's agony aunt, Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - More answers from classical music's agony aunt, Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - Classical music's agony aunt, Alice McVeigh, is back (!!!!!!!)
Ask DGriffs - A flood of correspondence for M&V's newly appointed 'agony uncle'
Ask Alice - Men problems this week for classical music's agony aunt, Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - Another eye-opening selection from classical music's agony aunt, Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - Practical advice from classical music's agony aunt, Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - Trouble with emails this week for classical music agony aunt, Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - Our classical music 'agony aunt', Alice McVeigh, tackles more questions
Ask Alice - more questions to Alice McVeigh, the 'agony aunt' of classical music
Ask Alice - more of your questions answered by our classical music agony aunt, Alice McVeigh
Ask Alice - in the first of a new series, Alice McVeigh, cellist, author and 'agony aunt' of classical music, answers your questions
Nuggets of advice - Alice McVeigh's 'All Risks Musical', read by Keith Bramich
Music & Vision articles by Alice McVeigh
A student feels unappreciated, but Classical Music agony aunt Alice McVeigh is there to help!!!!!!
Classical Music agony aunt Alice McVeigh wrestles with 1984 and the mind police
Of telephones and concerts, plus a recording of Vivaldi's Four Seasons - Music and Sonnets, with Classical Music agony aunt Alice McVeigh
Of mice and men, Chislehurst and Orpington, America and China, with Classical Music agony aunt Alice McVeigh
A visit to Covent Garden for 'Die Meistersinger', with Classical Music agony aunt Alice McVeigh
On hitting music students with string bows, with Classical Music agony aunt Alice McVeigh
On trusting in the force of the cello, with Classical Music agony aunt Alice McVeigh
On visiting the O2, and choosing between dentistry and music, with Classical Music agony aunt Alice McVeigh
On unruly behaviour on orchestral weekends and in concerts, with Classical Music agony aunt Alice McVeigh
Troubles and traumas at specialist music schools, with Classical Music agony aunt Alice McVeigh
A tale of six mottos, any number of mice, three cats, two vets, a conductor, a composer and a press release, from Classical Music agony aunt Alice McVeigh
On modern cello recital repertoire, with Classical Music agony aunt, Alice McVeigh
On drowning out Katherine Jenkins, and a 77,000 person Mexican wave, with Classical Music agony aunt, Alice McVeigh
On cellists playing violin, and a story about Cortot and Enescu, from Classical Music agony aunt, Alice McVeigh
On solos and orchestra politics, with Classical Music agony aunt, Alice McVeigh
Tricky orchestra questions for the world's most vibrant Classical Music agony aunt, Alice McVeigh
On desperation in singers and orchestral players, with Classical Music agony aunt Alice McVeigh
On the cut-throat world of piano teaching, with Classical Music agony aunt Alice McVeigh
On Nicola Benedetti, losing the 'Max' in Max Bruch and the National Children's Orchestra of Great Britain, with Classical Music agony aunt Alice McVeigh
On stopping performances due to illicit recordings, with Classical Music agony aunt Alice McVeigh
Richard Lewis, the great tenor. '... beg, borrow or steal.'
On downloading Brahms Sextets and coping with Greek rodents, with Classical Music agony aunt Alice McVeigh
Classical Music agony aunt Alice McVeigh is accused of ignoring the BBC Proms
On becoming a 'musicians are smarter' sceptic, and swimming to France across the English Channel, with Classical Music agony aunt Alice McVeigh
On pain caused by too much practicing, with Classical Music agony aunt Alice McVeigh
On complaining about music exam results, with Classical Music Agony aunt Alice McVeigh
On temporary disability and bias in music competitions, with Classical Music Agony aunt Alice McVeigh
On intonation in cello sections, with Classical Music Agony aunt Alice McVeigh
Irate choral singers, grade exams and tendonitis, with Classical Music Agony aunt Alice McVeigh
Agony aunt Alice McVeigh goes for zero classical music content in her latest rantings on social networking, sport and mice, guaranteed to annoy the editor (her only remaining reader)
A possible threat to the punctuation supremacy of classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh
On the rising cost of music hire, with Classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh
On 'Swinging Samson' and musicians' brains, with Classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh
Classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh says farewell to her musician aunt
On Royal-Wedding-itis, cello rosin and a thumbs up for Obama
Stupid questions and idiotic social networking
Trendy in Bromley, and bluesy music with a twist
Technology and music, plus Elgar in Lowestoft
A brief encounter with field-mice
Correspondence between film maker Phil Grabsky and classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh
In search of Beethoven and stress-free jobs
On grooming violin superstars and oriental domination
An overdose of Mozart and crazy fitness machines
On strengthening fingers and selling cellos
On pensions, money, burglars, bankers and teeth
The trouble with banks
On schools and academies
On various kinds of happy Christmasses
On sons and computers
On cello machines and thoughts of murder
On 'Hamlet' and lacking advancement
On Christmas and the Huddersfield Philharmonic
On Kindles, rehairs and resin
On listening or playing, musicians' creativity and Sue Frankel's Caractacus Pots
Classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh raves about Barclaycard and the Absolute Zero Viola Quartet, and comments on pillow fighting in Eastbourne
On the gooey bits of pigeons and Bach's B minor Mass
On rodents, requiems and bow restorers
On bands, exhaustion and headaches
A tale of rain, ashes and horses
On helping cellist Christine Jackson
Classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh is shocked and appalled ...
Strapped down and having her toes nibbled by mice, classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh meets the Wicked Witch of the West
A new plan for world peace
On, like, gift shop blues (or reds and browns?), like
On the three weaknesses of Charles Mackerras
Relationship advice for music teachers
How less practice can be more
Notching up the practice hours
Some harsh but sporting advice from classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh
A clear case of power play
On second careers and sensitivity
On songwriters and gamba sonatas
Christian Aid, Alice-style
Problems with a violinist who's 'too good'
'The Marriage of Figaro' in Washington DC, reviewed by classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh
The matinée performance on 24 April 2010 of Folger Theater's 'Hamlet', recommended by classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh
On the pros and cons of Facebook
On the guilty secrets of classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh
Wildlife on the highway, rescued by classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh
On oboe jobs, waxworks and knee surgery
On violins and bows
On the appointment of a masterchef for musicians
On talent and texts
On the benefits of singing
On personnel problems in orchestras
On thin ankles and recordings
A cello, a mechanic and a funeral
Elegy and Celebration
On the craziness of worldwide auditions
Classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh is touched strangely by tales of woe
On ageism in the music business
A special Christmas message from Classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh
Classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh deals with a trumpeter with an emotional problem
The most beautiful sound in the world
On delusions, fruitcakes and the Elgar Cello Concerto
On the perils of programming
Judges, sheep and a Rite to complain
On full-size cellos and musicians' reputations
On the benefits of music lessons
On parents and prose style
The truth about bishops and priests
Saying goodbye to Fiori
On end-pin stoppers, music exams and godparents
Classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh deals with the all-too-human feelings of annoyance, rejection and worry
On heartbreak, parents and practice
On statistics, surveys and rock groups networking and the guitar
On location, social networking and the guitar
On gentle Harvey Shapiro and the pressure of New York
On orchestral horn solos and funding cuts
On viola pegs and swine flu
On rites of passage
On classical music in London's Royal Albert Hall
On points, service and waiting
On business and friends
When to put up and shut up
On loyalty to pupils
On children, competitions and TV
Problems down at the ol' wind quintet
On freelancers, swiping work and danger money
On employment in music, insanity, rottweilers and the European Union
On business, payment and the arts
A mega problem with a minor orchestra, solved by classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh
On depression in orchestras
On godparents and sibling rivalry
Issues of life and death
On the soaring interest in studying music, and when Wilfrid Mellers met Margaret Thatcher
On freezing fingers and dreamers of dreams
Of perspiration, stringed instruments and teaching
A tale of magic rings and dinosaur bones, related by classical music's agony aunt, Alice McVeigh
The story of Mr Manjure and the agony aunt
Alice McVeigh braves the snow to listen to Fretwork at London's Wigmore Hall
Adventures in life, youth and snow
Classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh lists her current woes
Classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh is not judging but drowning
Jamie Walton plays Shostakovich
Mystery Bolshoi intermission music
Hitting the mood with Gershwin
An agony aunt at The Acropolis
An agony aunt writhes ...
Classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh at the Sidcup Literary Society
On worrying about the planet, and principal cellist problems
On cello congestion and market opportunities
On, like, the demise, like, of Washington's Ring cycle, if you will, with 'our friend' of classical music, Alice McVeigh
Distractions while reviewing
Searching for violinists in Yorkshire and senior readers online
Cheating on degrees, pictures of meat and the principal cello
Classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh takes a swipe at American politics
On musicians and intelligence
Difficult decisions for young musicians
Corelli from the Purcell Quartet
On Russian music and throwing metronomes
Agony aunt Alice McVeigh ignores classical music again to discuss American politics, shotgun weddings, bizarrely-named children and moose
Advice for a flautist
Adventures in the land of the Franglais and advice on starting university
Brushes with the law and sporting fame
Fascinating correspondence between classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh and a representative of a major computer firm
Classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh reports on problems brewing for the International Baccalaureate
A week of heaven on earth
'Kicking the parent', 'Lucia di Lammermoor' and other fun games and pastimes
Instructions for feeding the cat
Classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh begs help and advice from her readers
Classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh answers the question 'Is the name of a musician's college important?'
Issues involving young musicians and male musicians
Problems and performances - medical and musical
Nerds and scientists in music
On Eurovision Song Contest rage
On Handel operas and autographs
A little Godmotherly ceremonial advice
On zillions for Colburn and Juilliard, and the death of a landsnail named Edmund
Classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh in Florida
On playing the violin
Classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh celebrates her twenty-first birthday (again)
On performance nerves and the online cello
On God, rock concerts and earplugs
On promoting music competitions
On green mountains and bowgrips
Selling old cellos and bows on eBay, and a different kind of fish
Someone old enough to spell properly has orange eyes? Classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh investigates ...
On concert etiquette and goldfish, with Classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh
On spoil-sports, weirdos and wind instruments, with Classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh
Buzzing cellos and violin teachers scorned, with Classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh
Classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh deals with iTunes, Facebook and gender issues in conducting
On brains, hats, wives, books, music and animals
On Nutcrackeritis and MRI scans
On cello grades, examiners and braincells
Classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh proposes a New York Philharmonic Orchestra tour to Pyongyang, Tehran, Harare and Rangoon
Fair complaints and botox
Song cycles by John Joubert. '... a passionate wildness to the piano writing ...'
High marks for Steven Isserlis, but not for Birmingham
King Solomon, Beta-blockers and trumpet players
On the trail of a few artistic anythings in a dumbed down world is Alice McVeigh, agony aunt of culture
Temptation in electronic form for Alice McVeigh, musicians' agony aunt extraordinaire
Ping Pong and the Noise Abatement Society, with classically trained agony aunt Aunt Alice McVeigh
Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh has something else on her mind this week ...
Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh has something on her mind this week ...
Improving on Beethoven? More correspondence with Classical Music's Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh meets the Head Chief Moose ...
Confucius (in the guise of Geoff of Hampstead) predicted the perfect recipe for Alice McVeigh's Classical Music Agony Aunt column: dachshunds, daughters' birthdays, God, goldfish, husbands, landsnails, mothers, parrots, slices of apple and the scent of gerbils, but not the slightest hint of classical music ...
Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh's adventures in China ...
Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh on the trail of no ordinary newsflash ...
Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh tries to change her email address
Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh gives a worst-first view of her recent vacation
On Handel and helping Russia
Clearly unhinged? Read on, as Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh takes on Wikianswers, J S Bach and Johann Peter Kellner
Barking, biting and a hole in the head ... the case of Anna Magdalena and Buckie Bear versus Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh and her dachshund
An unscheduled visit to the other side, for Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Saying no to Yo-Yo, by Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
John Attanas' recent book about Yo-Yo Ma, reviewed by Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
On orchestral politics
A crisis for a double bass beginner, and 'Death in Venice' at English National Opera
On talent, known and unknown, and at home and abroad
On rigged auditions and the threat of digital orchestras
How to get something out of nothing
Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh mourns the passing of the great cellist Mstislav Rostropovich
On 'Swingin' Samson, pathetic excuses and American gun law
On children's gems, Joshua Bell and The Washington Post
On cello quartets, satanic dances and cricket
Tips on baroque bowing and orchestral touring from Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh deals with Disgusted of Greater London
This week, a raging head-colb forb Classicub Musib Abonub Aunt Alice McVeigh
Music either side of the big duck pond
Problems down at The Black Horse, reported by Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Dealing with the editor, by Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
A theatrical warning about 'The Coram Boy' from Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Is Beethoven in your toothbrush? Talk to our Classical Music Agony Aunt, Alice McVeigh
The trouble with siblings, by Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
On curses and blessings
On Guarneri cellos and firing pupils
On concert shoes and extending the nativity
On ornaments, New Year and the Malvern Hills
Dairyland and the baroque cross sign
On anti-social behaviour, pounding heads and the occasion of the year
On neurotics, the clarinet and credit card cloning
On conversations within the orchestra
On teenage violinists and ... girls
Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh in convalescence
Judging judges, desperate cellists, and Al-Qaeda Christmas festivities
Bums on seats and heads in nooses
On humming cellos, Indiana University Music School and the charisma bypass operation
From heaven to hell, damnation to dalmatians, and on the dumbing down of classical music, with Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
'Get insured and move on' is the advice this week from Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
with the still slightly testy Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
without Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
On cello strings and flaky painters
On straining the vocal cords
On Steven Isserlis, Agnes Poirier and surrender monkeys
On cellos for the needy, Schwarzkopf and replicating genius
Carbon music, Cretans and landsnails
On pianists, conductors, truth and goldfish
On Sicilian drivers and culture vultures
'Never in the history of ... drivel', and 'soon-to-be ruler of ... Orpington', Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh quotes reviews, advises cellists and plays tennis
Tricky Dicky and the ushers
Joshua Pierce's recording of Brahms' second piano concerto
When the ushers meet the musicians
Tennis, appearances and more tennis, for Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh's classical music humour column is clear as a mountain stream, and guaranteed free from tamagotchis, tennis and tuba trios
Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh is proud to be with the English Symphony Orchestra
STDs, tamagotchis and rejection letters
Conducting fellowships and big breaks for tenors
Correspondence between Tina and Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
On fainting pianists and escaping from a career as a violinist
Announcing a new book, that is and yet isn't by Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
On Anna Magdalena and Johann Sebastian
On the relative merits of Bach and Wagner
On goldfish and landsnails
On oboe-playing daughters-in-law and tuba careers
On playing the violin, the viola, the tuba and jobs
On the perils of tendonitis, and the return after a long absence of Mrs Gloria Stoatgobbler
A cry from the back desks of the violins, answered by Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
On Wallace, Gromit, Sir Edward and Aunt Alice, beta-blockers, hate mail, were-rabbits and Americans
Concert reviews, violins, cellos on 'eBay' and mathematical problems for schoolchildren
Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh ponders on the purpose of concert reviews, and fields questions on tamagotchi and ice skating
Half-term problems for Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Friends for fat people and plum roles for flautists
On the perils of Baroque dating, teaching adults and slimming
On earplugs, violinists and kids' names
Lighter in body and mind, Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh is still having problems ...
Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh is in a very strange mood this week ...
New Year letters from fellow cellos, fielded by Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
As the year comes to a close, classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh looks for a new job
A little Christmas agony, with aunt Alice McVeigh
Why Joe Bloggs rules, with secret tennis player Alice McVeigh
On horrible examiners, identifying recordings and locating singers
On jealousy and other craziness
On orchestras, cellists and the late John Martin
Forget classical music this week, as cellist, food expert and agony aunt Alice McVeigh deals with fancy goldfish, cannibalism and poisoning
On Beethoven bowings, hero worship and the pressures of academic study
On cello strings and pumpkin pie filling
'Some Kind of Genius: The extraordinary journey of Musical Savant Tony DeBlois'
The removal of Hwan Lee Scheitzer Jones Joubert
On looking after goldfish and growing up
Temirkanov conducts Mahler
Hooked on Molière, plus a mini-review of 'Windsong' by Kelly Ferjutz
Paganini on the mandolin, piano pupils and Bush's latest deal
On encores, mandolin arrangements and agony aunting
On the Ashes, yellow submarines and Jerusalem
A little bit of teenage hero worship, from Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
When choosing between happy hearts and your violin ... by Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
On free plugs, guides on making music, good shows ... with Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
Sorting out the musical inbox on return from holiday
Advice to a soprano on not kicking the goldfish, from Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
On 'Così', Nigel Kennedy and recovering the Ashes
Music for trumpets, and music for baroque lute
More on music books, including Misha Stefanuk's 'Jazz Piano for the Young Beginner'
On the frustrated and the talented, plus a review of Blair Tindall's book 'Mozart in the Jungle'
On pupils failing exams, opera singers and gut strings, proud, today, to be (half) British
On singing in Cardiff, Isserlis playing Saint-Saëns and square Samson
On mini-disc players, Mozart in the jungle and ads for tenors
Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh, in search of a tenor
Encounters with Big Hand Span and The Cunning Man, for Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
On stars and superstars
On lovestruck violists and beasts in Sydenham
More on 'Muso mates versus non-muso mates'
A review of Margaret Bartley's biography of Russian-American cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, by Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
A celebration of the madness of UK election hype, from Classical Music Agony Aunt Alice McVeigh
On car CD players, difficult students and telling conductors to 'break a leg'
On learning brass scales, and Starker's Brahms revisited
On Wieniawski at the Pope's funeral, anonymous letters and breaking a leg
Playing 'Fiddler on the Roof' at wedding receptions
Alice McVeigh reviews 'The World of Music According to Starker'
On the banning and sacking of conductors
On practicing and counting
On kissing, washing and Tartini rosin
Renée Fleming's book 'The Inner Voice - The Making of a Singer'
Inner voices, composers and cellists, and Mud and Noodles re-united
Swingin' Samson, problems in the violins and a review of 'La Clemenza di Tito' at English National Opera
On musicals, publishers and Starker
On concerts, witches and sightings
When Agony Aunt meets White Witch, plus a review of the Jacqueline du Pré memorial event in London
On disfunctionality, choral singers, princes and swastikas
On bad advice
Advice on tuition from classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh
Bursting with good will at Christmas is classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh
Balls for baubles, plus a Romeo and Juliet prelude. Into the sin bin with brass players and conductors, thrown by classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh
On cellos and flutes
Gender, musical instruments, open rehearsals, dancing and passionate sympathy from classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh
Leon Fleisher, beauty and Christmas news
Reviews, scams and justice
Classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh and the Rolex school of spam
Classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh and the yay-boo school of journalism
The Rastrelli cello quartet
Classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh and a reader are both frazzled at half-term ...
On bargains and politics
Instructions for dealing with a very tricky problem, prepared by classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh
Disorder in the ranks, dealt with the Alice McVeigh way
Why a good violinist needs a good bow, but a good children's party shouldn't have a bouncy castle
On cellists, composers and veils
Classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh contemplates 'le commencement de la end' supreme
Boarding at specialist music schools
More questions for Alice McVeigh, classical music's agony aunt
Classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh returns to tell the story of her rescue by Hel and Slime
Jaundiced, but nearly in Crete .... is classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh
Keep taking the tablets ... the latest advice from classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh
More forays into politics and literature
Helpful hints about sharing instruments, plus some musical commentary on Wimbledon
Sad news about classical music for Alice McVeigh
On cellists, politicians, children's musicals and sewer rats
In the wake of recent European elections, our ever-timely and impartial agony aunt of classical music encourages us to vote McVeigh
Problems this week with headmasters, oboists and emails
On Botox, youth and adventures in good music
On viola jokes and the eating of dogs
On the plight of Cassie in Brisbane
Muso mates versus non-muso mates
Schoolwork and headlice - all in a day's work for classical music's agony aunt, Alice McVeigh
'Slice it how you like', claims Alice McVeigh, Bromley's premier researcher into cello sounds and classical music's world's first agony aunt. 'How kinky is that?'
Alice McVeigh, the agony aunt of classical music, basks in the glory of her successful Dvorák performance ...
Alice McVeigh, the agony aunt of classical music, is artistically ham-strung and irritated, this week ...
A tale of cricket and children's books
A tale of one passport application, by classical music's agony aunt, Alice McVeigh
Classical music's agony aunt, Alice McVeigh, gives up explanation (or should that be exclamation?) points for Lent
Community service for conductors? Romantic music for bassoonists? All this and more with classical music's agony aunt, Alice McVeigh
On the continued excellence of the cello and the continued bad behaviour of conductors
The balance of the sexes or ... conductors with their trousers down
On string quartets, advertising, cellists and fame
A heartfelt 'cri-de-coeur' from classical music's agony aunt, Alice McVeigh
Busking amongst the sheep and speed cameras, classical music's agony aunt, Alice McVeigh, live this week from Wales
On diction and eye jobs, live this week from Brighton pier
On first love and Art
On anonymous Christmas cards
Recent changes in UK legislation impinge on the world of classical music's agony aunt, Alice McVeigh
More questions and answers, during which our Agony Aunt's cover is finally blown ...
Choristers and Christmas gifts
Conductors' handshakes and solo bows
Problems of the back and the leg, dealt swift blows by classical music's agony aunt, Alice McVeigh
Classical music's agony aunt, Alice McVeigh, deals with problems of food and light ...
On machines and men
Classical music's agony aunt, Alice McVeigh, apologises to her Welsh readers
A brush with the law for classical music's agony aunt, Alice McVeigh
On changing teachers
Freedom, A Serf's Charter, by classical music's agony aunt, Alice McVeigh
More questions and answers with classical music's agony aunt, Alice McVeigh
Classical music's agony aunt, Alice McVeigh, on poetry
The agony aunt and the butterfly
DGriffs is not amused by classical music's agony aunt, Alice McVeigh
Classical music's agony aunt Alice McVeigh visits Legoland (?!)
On spiders and singing ... from classical music's agony aunt, Alice McVeigh
More answers from classical music's agony aunt, Alice McVeigh
Classical music's agony aunt, Alice McVeigh, is back (!!!!!!!)
Men problems this week for classical music's agony aunt, Alice McVeigh
Another eye-opening selection from classical music's agony aunt, Alice McVeigh
Practical advice from classical music's agony aunt, Alice McVeigh
Trouble with emails this week for classical music agony aunt, Alice McVeigh
Our classical music 'agony aunt', Alice McVeigh, tackles more questions
more questions to Alice McVeigh, the 'agony aunt' of classical music
more of your questions answered by our classical music agony aunt, Alice McVeigh
in the first of a new series, Alice McVeigh, cellist, author and 'agony aunt' of classical music, answers your questions
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