Playing safe looking after your ears

Do you often miss bits of conversations? Always turning up the TV? Or maybe you experience ringing in your ears after listening to loud music? ‘After the age of 40, it’s normal to start losing hearing

Why protecting your ears is more important than ever

Q Is it true that Beethoven became deaf but still created music? A That is true, indeed. Famed composer Ludwig van Beethoven began to have hearing issues in his late twenties, and by his mid-forties i

Music is a serious business. Whether it’s love, death, heartbreak, loneliness, power, conflict, destruction, sin, faith, hope, despair… you name it, every weighty subject and state of mind has been ta

For many years the musician and ecologist Bernie Krause has lived in the Sonoma Valley in California, a base from which he travelled the globe to record natural soundscapes, creating the largest priva

THIS MONTH Holger Falk baritone Eisler Auferstanden aus Ruinen Holger Falk, Steffen Schleiermacher Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele (2019) This experience is not what people might expect to be heavenly