“Oui mais moi, je vais seule par les rues, l’âme en peine,” Françoise Hardy sang at the tender age of 19, “Yes but I, I walk the streets alone, the lost soul,” with a voice that, despite her age, ...
“I gave up music very early on. The conservatory shattered my dreams”. We regularly hear these comments from people who regret giving up music all their lives. Solfège, dictation, authoritarian music ...