of mice and men

Another ‘Movember’ has come and nearly gone with thousands of men nursing luxuriant  and not- so- luxuriant hirsute additions to their profiles. Had they been alive, no doubt some composers would have scored handsomely in the Movember stakes —    

  Conductor, musicologist and author Dr Paul Kildea has written a major book on the life of Benjamin Britten, to be published by Allen Lane on 7 February, 2013. In it, he claims that Britten suffered from syphilis which ultimately led to the cardiac failure from which he died. The composer apparently contracted the disease form…