Jun 1210 minTuesday 11th February to Monday 17th February 2020 – Winter sun in the Algarve.The MAEs like a bit of warmth and sunshine towards the end of an English winter and often head south for about a week at this time. Last ...
Jun 1214 minWednesday 29th January 2020 to Wednesday 5th February – Our Man in the Persian Gulf.When MAE announced in his last email to his public that he was planning a week in Dubai two regular readers (both of whom know him well a...
Jan 283 minFriday 24th January 2020 – a fine string quartet play three powerful pieces and a world premiere. To Lewes and the Nicolas Yonge (chamber music) Society. The Carducci Quartet (are they named after the great Italian Poet who won the Nob...
Jan 283 minSunday 19th January 2020 – an orchestral pick-and-mix by the sea.To the Congress Theatre, Eastbourne, with high hopes, for the third concert in the London Philharmonic’s 2019/20 winter residency. Entitl...
Jan 282 minSunday 29th December 2019 – Expectations of Great Expectations only partly fulfilled.To the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, to watch Eddie Izzard present a “work in progress” one man show based on Charles Dickens’ novel Grea...
Jan 284 minSaturday 28th December 2019 – Seagulls begin to fly under Graham Potter’s adventurous management.The last time MAE wrote about Brighton and Hove Albion was following the Seagulls’ trip to Wembley for the FA Cup semi-final in April. Wh...
Jan 287 minSeptember/October 2019 – Short Reviews: Al Stewart, Courtney Pine, Trevor McDonald.A series of quick-fire reviews necessitated in part by MAE’s inability to type following a minor hand operation, and partly through sloth...
Oct 31, 20192 minTuesday 22nd October 2019 – Doctor Dulcamara’s elixir is a real tonic. To Glyndebourne again for the second of this year’s Tour offerings. What a difference a week makes. Annabel Arden’s 2007 production of L’...
Oct 31, 20194 minMonday 14th October – Proper Charlie? The director's quandary - how much to change?To Glyndebourne for a new production of Rigoletto, the first of three operas in this Autumn’s Glyndebourne Tour. MAE was accompanied by h...
Sep 30, 20191 minFriday 27th September 2019 – BREAKING NEWS – NSO CD of The Travelling Companion now available.New Sussex Opera’s World Premiere Recording of Charles Villiers Stanford’s opera The Travelling Companion is now available from: https://...
Sep 30, 20194 minSunday 15th September 2019 – Slow curry and fast repartee by the sea.To Bexhill-on-Sea for one of Mr. and Mrs. MAE’s regular sojourns to the De la Warr Pavilion. The main attraction on this Sunday evening w...
Sep 30, 20196 minSaturday 14th September and Friday 20th September 2019 – New season under way at the Royal Opera.Not particularly in these diaries, but it would be fair to say that MAE has been a little underwhelmed by some of the productions in the ...
Sep 18, 20193 minSaturday 31st August 2019 – a Pilgrim in Lewes and Lapwings at Cuckmere Haven.Mrs. MAE and I headed to Lewes to view an exhibition of photographs at the estimable Martyrs’ Gallery of the endangered Feibusch mural in...
Aug 6, 20195 min25th, 26th, and 30th July – England and Ireland put to the Test and a cricketing literary supper.To Thomas Lords’ cricket ground at St. John’s Wood for the second and third days of the inaugural Test Match between England and Ireland....
Aug 5, 20194 minWednesday 24th July 2019 – summer music at the “Cathedral of the Downs”To Alfriston on a warm summer evening. Another musical joy of living in East Sussex is the annual South Downs Summer Music International ...
Aug 4, 20194 minSaturday 13th July 2019 – Ukrainian virtuosity at Glynde Place.To Glynde for the third concert of this year’s Glynde Place Concert Series. For the fifth year running Glynde Place, an attractive Elizab...
Jul 7, 20193 minFriday 28th and Saturday 29th June – Anyone for Tennis on the Sunshine Coast.Another one of Eastbourne’s annual treats, and one with a long history. The first Wimbledon Championship took place in 1877 immediately a...
Jun 12, 20193 minSunday 2nd June 2019 – casting difficulty takes the gloss off a very enjoyable La Traviata.To the Birley Centre for New Sussex Opera’s summer production. The NSO has been building a considerable reputation for its ground breakin...
Jun 12, 20194 minSaturday 25th May – Rhapsody in Claret and Blue on the south coast.Man about Eastbourne first saw Nigel Kennedy, that most idiosyncratic of English violinists, at the Barbican Centre 30th August, 1984 pla...
Jun 12, 20196 minLate May 2019 – Our times, their times. Three events at the 30th Charleston Literary Festival.One of the many pleasures of living in Eastbourne is its proximity to some of Britain’s most cherished cultural events. The Charleston Fe...