Evert's World of Music

If you do not like blog entries about abstractions, skip this one. It is about 'culture'. Soon I will write about King's Day - m...

The music critic has always fascinated me. He is the professional variant of something many people do continuously: talking about their musi...

After some years of making plans, (not) convincing possible partners and (not) finding money, finally this afternoon the first Groningen ver...

I am working ´in´ music. I teach about it. I talk about it. I write about it. I talk about teaching it. I write about teaching it. I teach a...

So here I am in Sarajevo, again. It has been quite some time - three years, to be precise. I wondered if again it would snow and I would sp...

When I was about fourteen, I stopped taking violin lessons and switched to the guitar. At that time, I think there was no choice between cla...

I would like to share here some of the final words of the anthropological classic "We, the Tikopia" by Raymond Firth, because, mor...