STUFF 2019

Disruption of Service

Hi all. My 36-year-old son Miles succumbed to cancer earlier this year and I have been struggling to deal with it. I no longer seem to be able to find the words to write about music.

Due to this, I am going to take a break for a while. Not sure when I’ll be back.

Thanks to the many thousands of visitors to this blog over the last three years.

Best wishes,

John Hood

A Short Break in Transmission & Some

I am going away for two weeks to visit friends in Hobart and grand-children in Sydney. I shall attempt to post again on Wednesday, October 16th.

It’s also worth mentioning that a writer from Fanfare classical magazine posted a moderately favourable review on my Amazon book page. Since then, sales have skyrocketed. Check it out on https://tinyurl.com/yyu3azta

I would love to see some comments posted – I don’t think it’s appropriate if I do.

Robbie’s You Beaut String Quartet Lists

Last weekend, a young gentleman, Robbie, who stumbled across my blog kindly sent me two of his fabulous lists of string quartets, wonderfully presented, which can be found here.

This page contains a recent list, although apparently it was a long time in the making. There is also a link to an earlier list on the page. Both are worth investigating. Containing quartets mainly from the 20th century, album covers and links to YouTube are provided.

There were quite a few that I have reviewed and some are in my 200+  ‘going-to-review’ shortlist. However, there are also many gems that I had not previously known of. Some of these will surely make it into that shortlist for future posts.

Highly recommended – thanks, Robbie.

All Pizzicato-ed Out!

I have spent most of the last week updating glossary links for the new SSL certified site, so only one review this week. All links should be updated by next week and I have a bunch of interesting new quartets to share.

I can’t believe how many instances of pizzicato I have had to process, at least 200. I have had to cut and paste every one and I don’t even like pizzicato. To me it has mainly sounded like noise from a hen-house and I don’t usually find it very musical. Obviously the composers do – oh well..

Security Update

My site is now certified as secure and the new address is

https://sqblog.jhredguitar.com/

I still have to clean up a number of links, that could take a couple of weeks. The new Glossary links should take you straight to the definition, which will be an improvement on the previous site. This should work on the two latest posts, with the rest to follow…

If anyone gets an error message that is NOT from a Glossary link, could you please email me a screen dump to johnhood@iinet.net.au

New Header Image

My son Matt is a professional cinematographer and photographer. He travels the world in his work. When I saw this image that he took in Kazakhstan, I just thought it would be great for the blog.

If you would like to have a look at some of Matt’s work, it can be found here.

Problems with WordPress

The blog software that I use, WordPress, has recently had a major upgrade. I don’t like it – too many bugs. I can’t update the composer index page this week. I would appreciate people reporting any weird behaviour or errors that they come across.

Cheers,

JH

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