With some surprise, I find that this blog has today reached its first birthday. What started out as a simple (or so I thought) way of looking at the world of music has grown into a fully-fledged adjunct to the department’s musical life, embracing concert reviews, alumni profiles, student articles, audio and video examples and a way of fomenting discussion and debate about music; all good.

It’s even spawned blog-offspring (blogspring ?) of its own, in the form of the choral blog ‘Cantus Firmus,’ the Concert and Big Band blog ‘On the Beat’ and the nascent orchestra blog, ‘Playing Up.’

With thanks to all of you who read, contribute, comment, share, tweet and in each way keep it alive and still reflecting both musical life here at the University, as well as beyond.

Happy birthday to us all.